> > We use ELOG for our accelerator operation logbooks. As part of the shift handover every shift prints out all
> > entries made during the shift and files the printouts. If one entry in the shift was plain text without
> > appropriate linebreaks (like this one), then this screws up the printout: the whole window is scaled to the
> > width of this line and either the printout is cut off at the right side, or the whole content is scaled down to
> > very tiny scale, which makes it unreadable.
> > 
> > Is there a way to enforce line breaks in plain text entries?
> 
> Obviously there is: this logbook does add line breaks?!?
> 
> Maybe it is only a problem with entries made by the "elog" command?
> I'll find it out and re-post.
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas

Yepp, this is a (missing) feature of the elog command. Can you pre-process your messages outside of it, or do I have to add code to elog to do that?

Stefan