From 6432d37df3b080556d4a422c70b2901667089883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Bocken <alexander@bocken.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:29:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add -w flag for custom widths

---
 README.md   |  1 +
 allioli.awk |  6 ++----
 allioli.sh  | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9029416..9b62426 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Code largely based off of [https://github.com/bontibon/kjv.git](https://github.c
     usage: ./allioli [flags] [reference...]
 
       -l      list books
+      -w <n>  set custom terminal width
       -W      no line wrap
       -F      no footnotes
       -g      show only German (no Latin)
diff --git a/allioli.awk b/allioli.awk
index fd1281e..7a3a3f7 100644
--- a/allioli.awk
+++ b/allioli.awk
@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@ BEGIN {
 	#  $6 Verse
 	FS = "\t"
 
-	MAX_WIDTH = 100
+	MAX_WIDTH = 120
 	if (ENVIRON["ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH"] ~ /^[0-9]+$/) {
-		if (int(ENVIRON["ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH"]) < MAX_WIDTH) {
-			MAX_WIDTH = int(ENVIRON["ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH"])
-		}
+		MAX_WIDTH = int(ENVIRON["ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH"])
 	}
 
 	if (cmd == "ref") {
diff --git a/allioli.sh b/allioli.sh
index ee6b0cb..e145d9f 100755
--- a/allioli.sh
+++ b/allioli.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ show_help() {
 	echo "usage: $(basename "$0") [flags] [reference...]"
 	echo
 	echo "  -l      list books"
+	echo "  -w <n>  set custom terminal width"
 	echo "  -W      no line wrap"
 	echo "  -F      no footnotes"
 	echo "  -g      show only German (no Latin)"
@@ -64,6 +65,14 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 		# List all book names with their abbreviations
 		get_data allioli.tsv | awk -v cmd=list "$(get_data allioli.awk)"
 		exit
+	elif [ "$1" = "-w" ]; then
+		shift
+		if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ -z "$1" ]; then
+			echo "error: -w requires a width argument" >&2
+			exit 1
+		fi
+		export ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH="$1"
+		shift
 	elif [ "$1" = "-W" ]; then
 		export ALLIOLI_NOLINEWRAP=1
 		shift
@@ -83,9 +92,11 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 	fi
 done
 
-cols=$(tput cols 2>/dev/null)
-if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-	export ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH="$cols"
+if [ -z "$ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH" ]; then
+	cols=$(tput cols 2>/dev/null)
+	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+		export ALLIOLI_MAX_WIDTH="$cols"
+	fi
 fi
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then