[Doc-SIG] Long verbatim blocks
Bob Ternosky
rternosk@bearcat.appliedtheory.com
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:28:34 -0400
>Guido van Rossum <mailto:guido@digicool.com> writes:
>>Bob Ternosky <mailto:rternosk@appliedtheory.com> writes:
>> I'm using the python-docs TeX setup/build process and I'm having a
>> problem with long verbatim blocks. I have a code block that is
>> longer than a page and upon generation of PDF or PS, the text runs
>> off the page instead of page breaking (the HTML output looks fine).
>
>This is just a wild guess, but it sounds like the TeX macros basically
>don't provide for breaking up long blocks -- it's as if you had an
>embedded image larger than the page, it just gives up.
>
>What I tend to do in such cases is break the verbatim block up at
>natural boundaries such as blank lines.
>
>There is no easy answer -- all publishers and toolsuites typically
>struggle with this one way or the other.
Sigh...that's what I was afraid of.
>What would you do if you had to include a word that didn't fit on a
>line?
Same thing. Break it up.
Thanks again.
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Bob Ternosky
rternosk@appliedtheory.com