Re: Exporting Code Blocks to PDF

["Bernhard Pröll" <bmutbuerger@gmail.com>]

Instead of switching fontsizes regularly, you might want to set the monofont size or scale:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \setmonofont[Scale=0.8]{Source Code Pro}


Bernhard

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> schrieb am Tue, 22. Apr 19:43:
>On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Elasady, Summer <sre@stowers.org> wrote:
>> Hello Emacs World-
>>
>> I’m using LaTex to export documents to PDF, but the code blocks are not
>> fitting to the page properly and the code is being cutoff. Is there a way to
>> turn on word-wrapping for export to PDF, or to resize code blocks?
>>
>
>I don't know if there's a way to wrap, but in my one formal
>programming class, the convention was only to write 80 characters or
>less -- are you exceeding that? If not, and it's just a font size
>thing, you can always use LaTeX to reduce the font. I frequently do
>this, especially using code in Beamer presentations:
>
>#+latex: \scriptsize
>#+begin_src R blah blah
>
>code here
>
>#+end_src
>#+latex: \normalsize
>
>This way, the block is downsized, and then resumes to regular font
>size for the rest of the document. You can use any size command you
>want; I frequently use \footnotesize, \scriptsize, and \tiny. I hardly
>notice a difference with \small, though you can try that, too.
>
>> Also, does anyone have a good system for dealing with exporting large
>> tables? Right now I’m just linking to a file, but I’m curious if anyone else
>> is doing anything clever.
>>
>
>For tables that are /close/ in size already, I do the same thing as
>above, at least if we're talking about fitting to width. You can also
>flip sideways and extend over multiple pages to handle both wide and
>long:
>
>#+latex: \begin{landscape}
>#+attr_latex: :environment longtable
>| *alpha* | *beta* | *gamma* | *delta* |
>|---------+--------+---------+---------|
>|       1 |      1 |       1 |       1 |
>|       2 |      2 |       2 |       2 |
>|       3 |      3 |       3 |       3 |
>|       4 |      4 |       4 |       4 |
>#+latex: \end{landscape}
>
>You can use them independently, too. Initially I tried the Org syntax
>for sidewaystable, but it didn't seem to work with longtable:
>- http://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-specific-attributes.html
>
>As in, technically it would seem you could do:
>
>#+attr_latex: :environment longtable :float sidewaystable
>
>But perhaps that's more of a LaTex issue:
>- http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63585/sidewaystable-together-with-longtable
>
>Anyway, the above works, and that covers any handles I've ever used
>(font, rotate, extend over multiple pages). Other than trying to
>wordsmith my column names where the title exceeds the contents...
>that's all the tricks up my sleeve!
>
>
>John
>
>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Summer
>> SRE@stowers.org
>>
>