Error: Terminal size 135x34 too small. Need at least 683x1242.

[c02y]

After installation, and mdp my_own.md, there are some long lines in my_own.md file,
it shows:"Error: Terminal size 135x34 too small. Need at least 683x1242.".
But my terminal is already in fullscreen mode, it should wrap long lines automatically to adjust the size of the terminal when in terminal presentation mode.

FYI: 1366x768 14 Inch Screen Laptop

Update:
I could have mentioned that the sample.md is totally fine in my terminal, maybe because the lines in the file are short, and I tried mdp for several other markdown files, all errors with the same message(different rows x columns of course).

As I said:"it should wrap long lines automatically to adjust the size of the terminal when in terminal presentation mode."

Platform: Fedora 20, 32-bit

what occured to me too. can someone solve this ?

[alahache]

+1

[visit1985]

What OS are you using? If the sample.md has the same issue, it is most likely a problem with the line break recognition.

[c02y]

@visit1985 I could have mentioned that the sample.md is totally fine in my terminal, maybe because the lines in the file are short, and I tried mdp for several markdown files, all errors with the same message(different size of course).

As I said:"it should wrap long lines automatically to adjust the size of the terminal when in terminal presentation mode."

Platform: Fedora 20, 32-bit

[drewsberry]

I too am getting this on Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit. Basically, it's not wrapping any of the lines, meaning sample.md is fine as long as the terminal size is at least 44x18, whereas other markdown files with very long lines are literally impossible to display, because they need e.g. 733x18, which is unfeasible (a terminal stretching across both my screens takes up 360x21).

[edthedev]

For cases where the error message is valid, an additional line in the error output would be helpful:

"You may need to add additional slide breaks ('***') to the file, or shorten some lines to fewer columns."

[edthedev]

No issue with sample.md on Mac OSX 10.9.

But pointing mdp at other pre-existing .md files pretty much guarantees this message occurring; so we should try to make it as helpful as possible.

[visit1985]

The documentation is not very well until now. But as you can see in sample.md, pages (slides) are split by --- or ***, which is the markdown representaton of a horizontal ruler (HR) in HTML.

If you use existing markdown files. You need to ensure, that there are enough of these rulers in your file, so each slide fits in your terminal. As HR is not used very often in general, this may fail for existing markdown files without customization.

Another point is, that lines are too long. Line wrapping is not jet implemented. The main difficulty here is, that the terminal size is unknown when the file is parsed. Thus it is necessary to calculate the amount of lines per slide while displaying it which is a bit more difficult. But i'll try my best.

The extended error message is a good idea too. I'll add that.

For now, you need to reformat your existing markdown files to fit in your terminals lines/columns.

[edthedev]

The new error messages work great. Thanks!

[visit1985]

c6516c7 solves it partially I think. But we need some more logic for correct word division.