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They're readable even on my droid x. |
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On Sep 30, 2010 1:15 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> 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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> Line lengths that long make the pages hard to read even if you _can_ |
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> make your browser wide enough to show an entire line. |
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> The regular handbook is a little better: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 |
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> That has lines that average about 140 characters. That's still much |
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> longer than what I'd consider good practice. |
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> Do the extremely long lines in the handbook web pages bother anybody |
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> else? |
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> I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample |
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> command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require |
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> horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs |
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> with 160 characters per line? |
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> -- |
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> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this going to |
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> at involve RAW human ecstasy? |
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> gmail.com |
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