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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2010-09-30, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>> On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby<bulliver@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards |
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>>>> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>>> I'm not seeing a problem here. Sure, the lines are long but my screen |
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>>>> is large and my resolution is high. A quick play with firefox and konq |
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>>>> shows that the text reformats itself quite elegantly when you resize |
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>>>> your browser window to say, 2/3 of screen width. |
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>>> I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me. I just end |
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>>> up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar. Are you |
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>>> sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about? |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 |
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>> The link above works fine although a bit wide. No horizontal scrollbar. |
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> And what happens when you narrow the window to say 2/3 of that width? |
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> Do the text paragrphs reformat to the new width, or do you just end up |
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> with a scrollbar and paragraphs that you have to scroll right to read? |
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If I narrow it a good bit, it does give me a scrollbar. The line |
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lengths look OK tho. At least for this page. The line lengths could be |
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shorter and still be good to tho. |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 |
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>> This one has a horizontal scrollbar but only adjust about a half inch or |
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>> so. It almost fits. |
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> Are the text paragraphs re-wrapped as you narrow the window? |
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That one has a scrollbar no matter what. It appears that section "Code |
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Listing 2.4: Using SH4 cross-compiler" is making it really long. It has |
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a line in that box that is pretty long. It's the longest line I saw in |
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the whole page. |
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So, it appears as someone else posted that the pretty blue boxes set the |
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minimum width. Whatever is the longest line sets the width. How would |
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one go about changing that I wonder? I know when someone posts a long |
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command on this mailing list, it makes it hard to understand when |
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Seamonkey shops it up into two lines. Most people are good enough to |
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post that the command has to be all on one line tho. It appears that a |
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email problem is also a website problem too. When to wrap a line and |
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when not to? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |