#182 Add automatic line wrapping

[BorisMonth]

I often need to copy a few lines of text from wikipedia into my xournal-documents. But since I how to format it manually every time, this can be very enoying.
Missing line wrapping is also very enoying, when you manually formatted your text but now just want to add 5 more words to this one sentence over ther... which will break your formatting again.
Maybe it would be a nice feature to have the ability to create "textboxes" like you can in jarnal (but not as fiddly as in jarnal) where you can resize the "textbox" by pulling on its corners.

[lightingnerd]

I would like to double-down on this request. It is a sorely needed feature to really replace paid tools. This is a frequently requested feature in Xournal++, and the developer's main argument against implementing this feature centers around incompatibility with Xournal. Considering that one of the most useful features of digital note-taking is the capacity to copy and paste lines of text from websites (where word wrapping is implemented), it becomes a huge hassle to go through and edit the body of the text, especially if you need to re-size the text box or change font size.

https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/issues/2033

[Jenny]

Looks like the error you're seeing is related to missing build dependencies—specifically the pkg-config tool or the pkg.m4 macro file used by autoconf.

Here are a few suggestions to try:

1. Install pkg-config – It's required for PKG_CHECK_MODULES to work. You can install it using Homebrew:

bash brew install pkg-config

1. Install autoconf and automake – They help generate the correct configure script:

bash brew install autoconf automake

1. Make sure pkg.m4 is in the right place – If it's missing, autoconf can’t process PKG_CHECK_MODULES. After installing pkg-config, check if pkg.m4 exists in /usr/local/share/aclocal/ and is included during autogen.sh.

2. Re-run ./autogen.sh after installing the above tools, then try ./configure again.