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On 09/30/2010 08:13 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are |
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> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I |
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> wouldn't swear to that). |
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> For example, look at this page: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 |
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> The normal text paragraphs have lines that average over 160 characters |
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> per line. The generally accepted guideline for line length in order to |
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> maintain good readability is 40-80. The above page's lines are 2-4 |
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> times as long as recommended for good readability, and they are in |
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> fact so long that I can't make my browser wide enough to see an entire |
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> line. |
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Same problem here. The text is not able to reformat below a certain |
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point, and that point is still too wide. Reading such wide lines of |
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text is not very comfortable. |
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