Sometimes requirement authors can get carried away and write long verbose requirements or even longer descriptive text. These can cause quality issues and more often than not can be easily split into smaller chunks. This aids readability.
Over long requirements can imply that the V&V would be similarly overly complicated.
This DXL script will identify over long objects (the size is defined in the layout script) in a layout DXL column. All objects are considered whatever the type, but tables are only displayed as a single row in order to reduce the clutter.
If the size is below the required number of characters, then it is excluded from the display by a filter. If not, then the number of characters is displayed.
The reviewer/author can then split the object at a convenient location and the filters can be reapplied.