long text in pipe table does not wrap in pdf

[tewarid]

Assuming

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 2.0.2
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.3, texmath 0.10, skylighting 0.4.3.2

A md document such as

| Name               | Value    | Description        | Additional Comment |
|--------------------|----------|--------------------|--------------------|
| SOME_LONG_VARIABLE_NAME | 00 (default) | Description of SOME_LONG_VARIABLE_NAME | Some additional comment about SOME_LONG_VARIABLE_NAME |

when rendered to pdf using

pandoc test.md -f markdown_github -o test.pdf

renders as

when rendered to PDF using

pandoc test.md -f gfm -o test.pdf

renders as (text off the page)

See also #2471.

[wilx]

It is the underscore that disables the line breaking algorithm in LaTeX. You can fix this by adding --include-in-header=table.header.tex to your command line, where the table.header.tex file contains just this line:

\usepackage{underscore}

[tewarid]

@wilx That works. Thanks!

Any suggestion for camel case?

| Name               | Value    | Description        | Additional Comment |
|--------------------|----------|--------------------|--------------------|
| SomeLongVariableName | 00 (default) | Description of SomeLongVariableName | Some additional comment about SomeLongVariableName |

renders as

[wilx]

Who is generating the documentation/table? If you can insert soft hyphen (U+00AD) character to the right places, you could use my uspace LaTeX package. Alternatively, you could list all of these in the header like \hyphenation{Some-Long-Variable-Name} to let LaTeX know where to hyphenate.

[wilx]

Also, somebody has already asked this before and there is also a LaTeX solution (with some limitations): hyphenation - Automatic camel case breaking - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange