Hi Edward, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-09-30, Darren Kirby <bulli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Grant Edwards >><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.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. Try a different fixed font. At the end I've chosen "Monotype", because it seems to have the narrowest well-readable letters. > 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. - Jörg
