I’m writing a document that includes examples of computer code formatted in a custom style. Sometimes these code lines are too long to fit the document width and split across two lines. Is there a way to format the style so that it automatically adds a continuation symbol to the split lines to indicate that the line continues? For example:
echo "This is really just one long line of text."
might format as
echo "This is really just one …
long line of text."I have the same need, but to the best of my knowledge you can’t automatically insert characters or bullet when a line wraps.
My workaround is to use a custom typographical convention where I warn the reader that my computer sample “lines” have a colour background. If the background is continuous, then the whole paragraph is a single computer command. Small white spaces delimit independent lines. It is better explained with an example:
Here, I customised Preformatted text to have a gray background and I set spacing above and below to 0.05 cm so that there is always a small gutter between paragraphs. This is quite large but I wanted it to be “striking” in this example.
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That is a good idea and arguably neater than adding continuation characters.
As a variation, you can also add an indent on 2nd+ lines (Before text set to 1cm, First line to -1cm) so that you easily spot visually where new lines begin.