pandoc - asciidoc: Encourage reduction of text size to fix page width

Question

I have a workflow where I use asciidoc (via asciidoctor) to create html, pdf and or open office (.odt) format documents. For the most part this works very well.

For the open office conversion I use pandoc with docbook format as an intermediary as in:

asciidoctor -b docbook foo.adoc -o foo.docbook
pandoc --base-header-level=3 -V date:"" -V title:"" -f docbook foo.docbook -o foo.odt

As it my related question, I wish to format output like the following:

This is some pipe delimited output:

    #columns: name|rank|serial-number|address|phone|age
    Goza|God|666|Zuul|555|10000

The columns can get quite wide. I would like them to stay on one line if at all possible but have the font size reduced instead. How can I force this or at least encourage it where there is no direct control.

I have tried things like:

    [%small]
    ----
    #columns: name|rank|serial-number|address|phone|age
    Goza|God|666|Zuul|555|10000
    ----

    [%nowrap][%autofit]
    ----
    #columns: name|rank|serial-number|address|phone|age
    Goza|God|666|Zuul|555|10000
    ----

But so far nothing has worked.

What is the best way to:

• Express this semantically in asciidoc
• Express this semantically in docbook (generated by asciidoctor)
• Express this semantically in html (generated by asciidoctor)

Ideally I'd like to express myself in statements like:

• shrink font to fit page width
• minimum font size can't be less than X
• only break on pipe symbol (it does this already thankfully)

It would be acceptable to say:

• specify font size

But this is not so good for the case of html where the text is reflowable and the window could be any size.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65944920/asciidoc-encourage-reduction-of-text-size-to-fix-page-width

Answer 1

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