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 1P1OHt-00050O-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26844E07CA; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC799E07CA for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB391B4037 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.271 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.271 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.328, 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 dG5cyBdvE2cA for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA03A1B401B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1OHR-00024X-Eo for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:54:57 +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 20:54:57 +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 20:54:57 +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 18:50:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4CA4D967.4000900@gmail.com> 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: 5ed5c48c-41f9-4a08-82b5-149a4ad75547 X-Archives-Hash: c0bc6706ef4b718c1bab8be6b5e78252 On 2010-09-30, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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 >> > > The link above works fine although a bit wide. No horizontal scrollbar. And what happens when you narrow the window to say 2/3 of that width? Do the text paragrphs reformat to the new width, or do you just end up with a scrollbar and paragraphs that you have to scroll right to read? >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 >> > > This one has a horizontal scrollbar but only adjust about a half inch or > so. It almost fits. Are the text paragraphs re-wrapped as you narrow the window? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My BIOLOGICAL ALARM at CLOCK just went off ... It gmail.com has noiseless DOZE FUNCTION and full kitchen!!