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On Tuesday 02 April 2002 11:15, John Belmonte wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I run a modest desktop resolution (1024x768) of which my browser window |
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> takes up about two thirds. Hoping to still have my eyesight when I'm |
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> 80, I like to view documents with a medium-large font. |
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> However in the documents on your site (such as |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/desktop.html) the text does not wrap to a |
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> "narrow" browser window, forcing me to do much horizontal scrolling. It |
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> seems like the page width is subject to the longest line of all the |
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> preformatted text boxes. |
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> Of course by definition preformatted text must not wrap to the window, |
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> but ideally normal text always should. I suggest not to make the bounds |
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> for normal text depend on the preformatted text. Horizontal scrolling |
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> will then only be required should a long preformatted line comes up. |
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I confirm and second that. It has annoyed me too, but I never got around to |
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bringing it up. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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