Headers about pen-paper-coffee-syntax

[nylki]

I am aware of that issue and it annoys me aswell.

Screenshot of the issue:

how it looks like with no changes to font-size in the syntax-theme (One-Light):

The problem lies in the fixed with of Atoms absolute positioned lines.
Each line of text in Atom has its own div class="line" which contains divs with classes used for styling specific syntax features.

When a line wraps is determined by its width. Example of a line with a markdown header:

<div class="line" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 550px;" data-screen-row="108">
   <span class="source gfm">
       <span class="markup heading heading-2 gfm">
           <span class="markup heading marker gfm">##</span>
           <span class="markup heading space gfm"> </span>
           Very very long header, that flows over in the current version off 
       </span>
     </span>
</div>

If I just do a word-wrap inside any of those spans on eg. .gfm .heading the result would be even worse, as the <span class="markup heading heading-2 gfm"> would wrap in itelf (that is, inside the line) and its impossible to control.

The problem I think (which I can't confirm right now) lies in the wrapping/linelength being determined by the font-size set via your settings. So when manipulation the font-size in the syntax theme, the calculation of the propper wrapping or line-length by atom doesn't properly work for those lines anymore.

I guess, if it was possible to select the .line that contains a .heading you could set a max-width to earlier wrap the text. As there is no parent selector in css, this is at the moment not possible. But even if that would be possible I am not quite sure if it would work out properly as it might break the structure of the document.

Of course, if anybody has a different view on the situation I am eager to hear it 😃 . Maybe I am just overseeing a detail. /cc @braver @jesseweed @kevinsawicki @abe33

[sbaack]

Not really a solution, but could you include an option to not change the font size as a workaround? I really like the theme, but issues with the headers prevent me from using it :-(

[nylki]

@sbaack It got even worse with cursor positioning etc. :/

I am pushing an update disabling the fontsize changes until the issues are fixed (possibly in Atom itself). I can't really add an option as syntax-themes don't expose options.

[nylki]

this issue is most likely relevant: atom/atom#6055

[sbaack]

Thanks! I hope the issues in Atom will get fixed in the not-so-distant future. Unfortunately I now have a new issue with footnotes which I think is related to the change: Sometimes (but not always) the font-size is not only reduced for the footnote itself but also for the text that comes after it (for the rest of the line).

[nylki]

@sbaack Ahh, about the newly styled footnotes. I suppose you are using the pfm/pandoc-flavoured-markdown package as well?
Do you have an example at hand where that issues is visible? :)

[sbaack]

Good that you mention the pfm package, citations seem to cause the issue:

[nylki]

@sbaack I linked your image in an issue at pfm. Let's see if somebody got a solution to that! Hope it's not too much of an issue to you right now. Otherwise you can edit your local copy of the theme and edit/comment out the .pfm .footnote section, so that no styling is applied to footnotes.

[sbaack]

I will comment out the section for now then. Thanks again for your help and for the great theme :-)

[nylki]

@sbaack You are welcome! Glad you like it even though it has some problems because of experimental stylings ;)

I suppose I'll actually comment the section out in the master if there is no quick fix. I prefer to not have style breaking features in the theme.

[the-solipsist]

The base issues atom/atom#6055 and atom/atom#7945 seem to be fixed, so any chance that we will have header-resizing again?

[nylki]

@the-solipsist Unfortunately, there still are issues with bigger than 1em/100% fontsizes.

[the-solipsist]

Are there any other external blockers to this being solved? If so, should one of us open up an issue report with Atom?

[nylki]

@the-solipsist I just created a meta-issue at atom-core (see above). I am not sure if other work is currently underway to overcome those rendering issues.

[nylki]

closed as wontfix.