Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

[Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@gmail.com>]

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They're readable even on my droid x.

On Sep 30, 2010 1:15 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are
> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I
> wouldn't swear to that).
>
> For example, look at this page:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2
>
> The normal text paragraphs have lines that average over 160 characters
> per line. The generally accepted guideline for line length in order to
> maintain good readability is 40-80. The above page's lines are 2-4
> times as long as recommended for good readability, and they are in
> fact so long that I can't make my browser wide enough to see an entire
> line.
>
> Line lengths that long make the pages hard to read even if you _can_
> make your browser wide enough to show an entire line.
>
> The regular handbook is a little better:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
>
> That has lines that average about 140 characters. That's still much
> longer than what I'd consider good practice.
>
> Do the extremely long lines in the handbook web pages bother anybody
> else?
>
> I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample
> command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require
> horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs
> with 160 characters per line?
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this going to
> at involve RAW human ecstasy?
> gmail.com
>
>

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