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 1P1QSm-00062b-KW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6D261C013; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91723E0CC9 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413101B42D2 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.284 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.284 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.315, 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 wCG0H6FzYu9X for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C801B42B0 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P1QRy-0005t5-Lo for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:13:58 +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 23:13:58 +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 23:13:58 +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 21:13:50 +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: 5c949541-57e8-4cdc-aa52-f2ffa71e80f7 X-Archives-Hash: 1eefa340b02d0f7090745178c4cf7685 On 2010-09-30, J??rg Schaible wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >>> 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. > > Try a different fixed font. At the end I've chosen "Monotype", because it > seems to have the narrowest well-readable letters. I could do that, but IMO that's just a kludge for a broken document. And it only works until the next web page comes along with even wider listing blocks. The real problem is that text and listing widths are linked. They shouldn't be. I've filed a bug report: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339290 So feel free to weigh in there. That bug report contains a link to a page that shows how I think it should work: http://www.panix.com/~grante/wrapdemo.html The text paragraphs wrap to fit within the browser width regardless of the width of the listing blocks. I've also set a max width on the paragraphs so that they remain readable even when you widen the browser window to see more of the wide listing blocks. [I admit the max-width bit is more of a style-preferance thing.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My mind is making at ashtrays in Dayton ... gmail.com