On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby <bulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I can understand that things like example code blocks or sample >> command input/output blocks might need to be wide enough to require >> horizontal scrolling of a browser window, but normal text paragraphs >> with 160 characters per line? > > I'm not seeing a problem here. Sure, the lines are long but my screen > is large and my resolution is high. A quick play with firefox and konq > shows that the text reformats itself quite elegantly when you resize > your browser window to say, 2/3 of screen width.
I'm using firefox, and the text doesn't reformat for me. I just end up with a change in the size of the horizontal scrollbar. Are you sure you're looking at the same pages I was talking about? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 > I think that's a better solution than imposing some arbitrary line > length on everyone no matter their screen size and resolution. Yes, that would be fine if, in fact, it worked. But it doesn't. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Wow! Look!! A stray at meatball!! Let's interview gmail.com it!