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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:57:33 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2010-09-30, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 September 2010, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>
>> 
>> That has lines that average about 140 characters.  That's still much
>> longer than what I'd consider good practice.
>
> I am counting 105.

>> Do the extremely long lines in the handbook web pages bother anybody
>> else?
>
> not me. Not with konqueror.

I'm using firefox, and it obviously varies somewhat depending on the
exact fonts used and the screen resolution.  That said, the vast
majority of sites sites don't seem to have this problem.

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