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 1P1Njz-0007N8-SO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B716E09AD; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8BBE09AD for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C091B40A6 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.256 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.256 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.343, 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 Y5K-Z7LWc6Pu for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5643C1B4001 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Njg-0004Vi-8V for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:20:04 +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 20:20:04 +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 20:20:04 +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 18:19:47 +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: 6d76b3cd-c71d-4aff-9ea3-537958b806da X-Archives-Hash: b659bbbd62bc95036289104888b87623 On 2010-09-30, Al wrote: > I can only confirm this. Long lines are difficult to focus, so they > are tiresome to read. And when you have to scroll the window back-and-forth for each line, it makes you want to scream. > For this reason typical newspapers have small columns. Personally I > even prefer to read ebooks on the very small display of a mobile > phone. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! How do I get HOME? at gmail.com