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 1P1Ojm-00023G-QM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:24:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75A4CE0BB8; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52906E0BB8 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15FF1B4037 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.274 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.274 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.325, 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 rFt2KT0I6XVh for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196DA1B4001 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Oj8-0005s2-N6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:23:34 +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 21:23:34 +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 21:23:34 +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 19:23:27 +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: 3a63af71-841a-40fb-b713-d2765f714558 X-Archives-Hash: fb39aad75e14910473c7d99a48a933b6 On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >>> Do you have some custom css stylesheets that override the default or >>> something? >> >> Nope. Not that I know of. I presume I'd have to do something I'd >> likely remember > > Yes, you would definitely remember if you did it... > > Anyway, I think perhaps we must be running considerably different > resolutions and text sizes... I'm pretty sure you're right. I'm apparently seeing a significantly larger "fixed" font than you are (as a percentage of screen width). For whatever reason, a lot of sites like to use a low-contrast color scheme for things like listing blocks. For example, Gentoos uses medium-blue on light-blue (violet?). I find that hard to read when the font gets too small. > playing around here a bit more and you are correct, the text will > only reformat to the width of the longest code block before the > horizontal scroll appears. On the "Creating a Cross-Compiler" page > you linked to the longest code block is still only half the width of > my screen, so it's not really a problem on my system. I could reduce the minimum size of my "fixed" font, but that only helps until the next web page comes along with an even wider code block. The basic problem is that the width of the normal text paragraphs is dependent on the width of the code blocks. IMO, that's not right[1], but whether or not it can be fixed depends somewhat on the document formatting system in use. [1] As somebody who's been using TeX/LaTeX for 25 years, I'm probably inordinately picky about typesetting issues. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I have a TINY BOWL in at my HEAD gmail.com