[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby <bulliver@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>
> I'm not seeing a problem here. Sure, the lines are long but my screen
> is large and my resolution is high. A quick play with firefox and konq
> shows that the text reformats itself quite elegantly when you resize
> your browser window to say, 2/3 of screen width.

I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me.  I just end
up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar.  Are you
sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about?

  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2  

> I think that's a better solution than imposing some arbitrary line
> length on everyone no matter their screen size and resolution.

Yes, that would be fine if, in fact, it worked.  But it doesn't.

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