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On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 07:01 -0400, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 06/21/2017 04:43 AM, sfinucan at redhat.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 16:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > > On 06/20/2017 09:51 AM, Eric Fried wrote:
> > > > Nice Stephen!
> > > > 
> > > > For those who aren't aware, the rendered version (pretty, so pretty)
> > > > can
> > > > be accessed via the gate-nova-docs-ubuntu-xenial jenkins job:
> > > > 
> > > > http://docs-draft.openstack.org/10/475810/1/check/gate-nova-docs-ubuntu
> > > > -xen
> > > > ial/25e5173//doc/build/html/scheduling.html?highlight=scheduling
> > > 
> > > Can we teach it to not put line breaks in the middle of words in the text
> > > boxes?
> > 
> > Doesn't seem configurable in its current form :( This, and the defaulting
> > to PNG output instead of SVG (which makes things ungreppable) are my
> > biggest bug bear.
> > 
> > I'll go have a look at the sauce and see what can be done about it. If not,
> > still better than nothing?
> 
> I've actually looked through the blockdiag source (to try to solve a
> similar problem). There is no easy way to change it.
> 
> If people find it confusing, the best thing to do would be short labels
> on boxes, then explain in more detail in footnotes.

I managed to get this working through some monkey patching of the module [1].
It's not perfect and efried and I want to do something else to prevent
truncating [2], but it's much better now.

Stephen

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/476159/
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/476204/