I agree that with some tutorials lines are too long. So open an issue in JIRA, and feel free to provide a patch ;-)
Xavier > -----Original Message----- > From: Niklas Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Problem with Tutorial > > On Wed 2007-12-05 at 11:56h, Jing Xue wrote on ivy-user: > : > > In my Firefox (both Linux and Windows), most pages with example > output (or > > any pre-formatted text) seem to be about 1024px wide, i.e., a browser > > window smaller than that will start having the horizontal scroll bar > > shown. > > One of the more extreme examples is > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/tutorial/build- > repository/advanced2.html > > > That's not terribly hard to read for me. > > It's not "hard", but simply inconvenient for the eyes to have to > "jump" a long distance from the end of a line to the beginning of the > next. Newspapers and magazines use a column layout for a reason. Also > books and other print media exceeding a certain page width. > > > On the other hand, forcing the example output or code samples to > > wrap might cause some confusion, especially among those who are > > trying to get started. > > Of course the example output and code samples should NOT be wrapped! > Just the regular text, for ease of reading. > > -- Niklas Matthies
