Long lines from cell output are truncated instead of being wrapped in PDF about handcalcs HOT 2 OPEN

Yeah, this has been something that has bothered me for a long time.

The short answer is that it is a problem with the render to PDF engine and I am unsure how to fix it.

It seems to happen both when rendering to HTML in the browser and apparently in LaTeX, as shown by your example.

I have two strategies for managing this in my own calcs:

1. I break up the calculation into pieces (if there are obvious "components" separated by + or - operators)
2. I use the browser Print dialog to scale the page until the calculation fits, switching to landscape if it makes sense to.

In an earlier version of handcalcs, I used the /gather environment for the long calcs. However, because this environment was not supported by Katex (at the time, anyway), I switched away from it. The gather environment gives a liiiitle bit of extra room on the line.

For HTML rendering this is an upstream issue for Katex and MathJax to address. In LaTeX, additional layout code or macros would need to be added to the document in order to correct it (I think...).

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Thank you very much for the exhaustive response, very appreciated.

I will probably divide in parts the long calculation (which are a few, so not a big deal), it is a solution nonetheless, so thank you again.

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