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 1P1Pr1-00077Q-PL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:35:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17705E0B91; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:34:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55FBE0B91 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D27C1B4025 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:34:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.392 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.392 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.207, 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 uCLn3Il9gIk2 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E188A1B4174 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1Pq4-0000G9-Fj for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:34:48 +0200 Received: from hsi-kbw-078-042-101-027.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([78.42.101.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:34:48 +0200 Received: from joerg.schaible by hsi-kbw-078-042-101-027.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:34:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schaible Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages Followup-To: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:34:39 +0200 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="UTF-8" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hsi-kbw-078-042-101-027.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: KNode/4.4.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3b0ac202-2ebd-4e58-bada-64a18392c24b X-Archives-Hash: a58516a8bcc89ef9dce6c757304b710c Hi Edward, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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... >=20 > 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. >=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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. Try a different fixed font. At the end I've chosen "Monotype", because it= =20 seems to have the narrowest well-readable letters. > 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. >=20 > [1] As somebody who's been using TeX/LaTeX for 25 years, I'm probably > inordinately picky about typesetting issues. - J=C3=B6rg=20