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>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source |
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> code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen |
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> comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with. |
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Some people use several windows side by side, and the natural width of |
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these windows is 80 columns because almost all code adheres to it. |
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And we are talking about LaTeX source code that is mostly human |
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readable language. Readability suffers if lines have more than 60 or |
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70 characters. |
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Ulrich |
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