Request for word-break feature

[abeverley]

It would be beneficial to have a word-break feature, to define what happens when a word is too long to fit on a page. At the moment it doesn't get printed and the whole word is returned when calling apply(). It would be nice to have the option to either truncate it or break it over multiple lines.

I've taken a quick look at the code and see that it wouldn't be a quick thing to fix, although I'd be happy to sponsor such a change if you were interested in implementing it.

My particular use-case was looping a large text block, printing it on a page. I ended up with an infinite loop as no text was ever written. For the record, these are the (temporary) fixes I've used for the time being: ctrlo/CtrlO-PDF@a77f11d and ctrlo/CtrlO-PDF@fb49fde

[jhannah]

Hey @abeverley sounds like a nice feature. I haven't used this software in years. If you find someone to submit a patch I'd happily merge, push it to PAUSE.

[abeverley]

Thanks @jhannah I'll see if I can get someone to develop it.