Code folding in PDF output?

[domilot]

I just tried Quarto with a Jupyter notebook. The code folding feature seems to work exclusively for HTML output. Unfortunately, this feature is missing from where it would seem really necessary, i.e. fixed-width documents like PDF. And this in a project promising "elegantly formatted output", "high-quality articles", and "beautiful publications" (all taken from Quarto's homepage).

[cscheid]

The PDF format standard itself is static, and doesn't support interactive features. You can still control whether code is hidden with echo: false, output: false, etc.

[domilot]

Sure, PDF is static. This is precisely why it would be nice to have code automatically wrapped prior to the PDF-file generation. Otherwise this is what you get:
too_long_line.pdf

[cscheid]

Ok, I see what you mean. This confused me:

The code folding feature

We'd like to do better with wrapping as well. The problem is that the type formatting that needs to be done is dependent on the final PDF format, which we don't know about at time of rendering. So it's actually a hard problem to solve in general. You see the same problem in HTML formats as well. I believe you'll find that this isn't a problem unique to quarto.

[domilot]

I know this is a hard problem to solve. I got the same ugly results in the past while exporting my RST (restructured text) files to PDF via Sphinx. I keep my fingers crossed for your team because otherwise Quarto seems to do a great job.

[dragonstyle]

I think automatically wrapping code in a satisfactory way is a pretty tough problem. Often the author having control of the wrapping behavior is preferable as it allows the placement of breaks in the most sensible locations (whereas automatic wrapping is unlikely to achieve this).

[baptiste]

There are a few pointers on the knitr side of things; this one in particular seems to work well

---
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    include-in-header: 
       text: |
         \usepackage{fvextra}
         \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
         \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{OutputCode}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
---

This is Markdown text. The line is extremely long. Luckily, it gets wrapped automatically, which is very, very nice.
   

```{r}
#| class-output: OutputCode
grid::unit(lattice::trellis.par.get()$axis.components$bottom$tck, lattice::lattice.options()$layout.widths$right.padding$units)

print("This is a very long line of code that I would gladly see folded. Unfortunately it does not appear my screen expands as needed, which is a shame as I could not preview Hasselblad XPan scans, or look at xkcd 1732 sideways.")
```

However I do not understand the behaviour of class-output (and attr-output alongside, which turns things into a "html-div" but not in a way understood by LaTeX); with just class-output it switches on the Highlighting + Shaded environment no matter the name, but I'm not sure how to get a plain Verbatim one for the output.

[CLRafaelR]

Although baptiste's solution works very fine, you can avoid setting class-output option for each code block if you redefine verbatim environment using \RecustomVerbatimEnvironment{verbatim}{Verbatim}{...} in include-before-body key of YAML. See also a relevant thread in tex.stackexchange.

---
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    include-in-header: 
       text: |
         \usepackage{fvextra}
         \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
include-before-body:
  text: |
    \RecustomVerbatimEnvironment{verbatim}{Verbatim}{
      showspaces = false,
      showtabs = false,
      breaksymbolleft={},
      breaklines
      % Note: setting commandchars=\\\{\} here will cause an error 
    }
---

This is Markdown text. The line is extremely long. Luckily, it gets wrapped automatically, which is very, very nice.
   

```{r}
grid::unit(lattice::trellis.par.get()$axis.components$bottom$tck, lattice::lattice.options()$layout.widths$right.padding$units)

print("This is a very long line of code that I would gladly see folded. Unfortunately it does not appear my screen expands as needed, which is a shame as I could not preview Hasselblad XPan scans, or look at xkcd 1732 sideways.")
```

[Pierrrick]

How would one deal with this kind of output not fitting into the page ?

[mcanouil]

@Pierrrick Please try to post question relevant to the thread after trying the solution.
Also in your case, since you are asking about code output wrapping, see #3693 for example.

[CLRafaelR]

@Pierrrick

My solution works for folding long message output:

Did you really try the solutions posted here? If so, you ought to show us what you did and what environment you are working with (e.g. run sessionInfo() and retrieve R version, versions of relevant packages, and your OS), then we can help you.

---
format: 
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
    include-in-header: 
       text: |
         \usepackage{fvextra}
         \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{breaklines,commandchars=\\\{\}}
include-before-body:
  text: |
    \RecustomVerbatimEnvironment{verbatim}{Verbatim}{
      showspaces = false,
      showtabs = false,
      breaksymbolleft={},
      breaklines
    }
---

This is Markdown text. The line is extremely long. Luckily, it gets wrapped automatically, which is very, very nice.
   

```{r}
grid::unit(lattice::trellis.par.get()$axis.components$bottom$tck, lattice::lattice.options()$layout.widths$right.padding$units)

print("This is a very long line of code that I would gladly see folded. Unfortunately it does not appear my screen expands as needed, which is a shame as I could not preview Hasselblad XPan scans, or look at xkcd 1732 sideways.")
```


```{r}
library(tidyverse)
```

[skwde]

This did not work for me.

I had to add use

    include-in-header: 
      text: |
        \usepackage{fvextra}
        \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{
          commandchars=\\\{\},
          breaklines, breaknonspaceingroup, breakanywhere
        }

instead.

See also the dedicated pandoc latex section in the fvextra docs: https://mirror.init7.net/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/fvextra/fvextra.pdf

[leowill01]

this worked for me after trying multiple different things. thanks!

[s2t2]

How to do this for Python?

[mcanouil]

What do you mean for Python?
Nothing discussed here depends on the language.

[averms]

Typst does this automatically, you can use pdf-engine: typst

[mcanouil]

@averms Quarto supports Typst as a format. Use format: typst.