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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:15:20
Message-Id: 4CA4E19D.7000303@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2010-09-30, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Grant Edwards wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby<bulliver@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>
9 >>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards
10 >>>> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
11 >>>>
12 >>>>
13 >>>>
14 >>>>> I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample
15 >>>>> command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require
16 >>>>> horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs
17 >>>>> with 160 characters per line?
18 >>>>>
19 >>>>>
20 >>>> I'm not seeing a problem here. Sure, the lines are long but my screen
21 >>>> is large and my resolution is high. A quick play with firefox and konq
22 >>>> shows that the text reformats itself quite elegantly when you resize
23 >>>> your browser window to say, 2/3 of screen width.
24 >>>>
25 >>>>
26 >>> I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me. I just end
27 >>> up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar. Are you
28 >>> sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about?
29 >>>
30 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1
31 >>>
32 >>>
33 >> The link above works fine although a bit wide. No horizontal scrollbar.
34 >>
35 > And what happens when you narrow the window to say 2/3 of that width?
36 > Do the text paragrphs reformat to the new width, or do you just end up
37 > with a scrollbar and paragraphs that you have to scroll right to read?
38 >
39 >
40
41 If I narrow it a good bit, it does give me a scrollbar. The line
42 lengths look OK tho. At least for this page. The line lengths could be
43 shorter and still be good to tho.
44
45
46 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2
47 >>>
48 >>>
49 >> This one has a horizontal scrollbar but only adjust about a half inch or
50 >> so. It almost fits.
51 >>
52 > Are the text paragraphs re-wrapped as you narrow the window?
53 >
54 >
55
56 That one has a scrollbar no matter what. It appears that section "Code
57 Listing 2.4: Using SH4 cross-compiler" is making it really long. It has
58 a line in that box that is pretty long. It's the longest line I saw in
59 the whole page.
60
61 So, it appears as someone else posted that the pretty blue boxes set the
62 minimum width. Whatever is the longest line sets the width. How would
63 one go about changing that I wonder? I know when someone posts a long
64 command on this mailing list, it makes it hard to understand when
65 Seamonkey shops it up into two lines. Most people are good enough to
66 post that the command has to be all on one line tho. It appears that a
67 email problem is also a website problem too. When to wrap a line and
68 when not to?
69
70 Dale
71
72 :-) :-)

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