From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Niy-0007C3-Av for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:19:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9ED4E0A9A; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E678E0A9A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064141B4143 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.253 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.253 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.346, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TjNdmL+psXVe for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332091B4116 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1NiF-0003sY-Od for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:18:35 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:18:35 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:18:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 2f039fd0-1f12-48b5-9f79-3df9a1e6828e X-Archives-Hash: 05ca42c4f65d8aaba7639a20b6133df6 On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards > 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Wow! Look!! A stray at meatball!! Let's interview gmail.com it!