[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby <bulliver@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>> Do you have some custom css stylesheets that override the default or
>>> something?
>>
>> Nope. Not that I know of. I presume I'd have to do something I'd
>> likely remember
>
> Yes, you would definitely remember if you did it...
>
> Anyway, I think perhaps we must be running considerably different
> resolutions and text sizes...

I'm pretty sure you're right. I'm apparently seeing a significantly
larger "fixed" font than you are (as a percentage of screen width).
For whatever reason, a lot of sites like to use a low-contrast color
scheme for things like listing blocks.  For example, Gentoos uses
medium-blue on light-blue (violet?).  I find that hard to read when
the font gets too small.

> playing around here a bit more and you are correct, the text will
> only reformat to the width of the longest code block before the
> horizontal scroll appears. On the "Creating a Cross-Compiler" page
> you linked to the longest code block is still only half the width of
> my screen, so it's not really a problem on my system.

I could reduce the minimum size of my "fixed" font, but that only
helps until the next web page comes along with an even wider code
block.

The basic problem is that the width of the normal text paragraphs is
dependent on the width of the code blocks.  IMO, that's not right[1],
but whether or not it can be fixed depends somewhat on the document
formatting system in use.

[1] As somebody who's been using TeX/LaTeX for 25 years, I'm probably
    inordinately picky about typesetting issues.

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