Cool, I didn't know that trick myself, thanks for sharing.

I use a elog which has a text field to show log entries:  https://classis01.roma1.infn.it/elog/calib/     In the "Summary" view there are only 3 lines of about 40 characters shown, so often the entry is cut off even though there is plenty of space in the text box for longer lines.   To see the full entry you must click on the ID number.   Is there any way to configure the Text box to show longer lines?   Thank you.

Did you try the options

• Summary lines = x
• Summary line length = x

as documented in https://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#flags ?

It works nicely with plain text entries; it has some difficulties with HTML, since it has to remove the formatting and that disturbs the line count.

Cheers Andreas

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?

> 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

> > 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

Okay, I found two ways to add very long lines:
- if the very long line does not contain a space then this will screw the printout.
- if the line has been added as plain text using the elog command, there will be no line breaks added.

It would be nice if the elog command would have an option to break lines to a maximum line length.
But for the moment I'll just modify the applications that make use of the elog command.