On 3 August 2013 13:14, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/13 16:50, ashwin kesavan wrote: > >> HI, >> >> I am using pan 0.139 . I have a big screen. I see that pan wraps text in >> message to 80 char or something like that. How do i make pan text to fill >> the available space in body pane ? Like free floating text. I am unable to >> find a setting that can do this. My searches on google haven't produced >> anything useful. >> > > Your eyes will thank you not to do this. > > There is a reason why wide newspapers and magazines wrap text into short > columns of about 60-70 chars (8-10 words). Unless you are using a > bi-directional language which reads left-right, right-left, it is much > harder to return to the start of the next line if the line is extremely > wide: eye strain increases, concentration suffers, reading speed slows > down, and the rate of errors increases. > >
Thanks Steven for looking into this. Pan is not same as newspaper. In newspaper the whole is dedicated to text and a very minor portion is allocated to meta data. But here in pan, the meta data portion of group pane and Header pane that play a important role and does occupy lot of screen space. I know that i can change the layout, but doing so hurts the fast switching between messages. In thunderbird, i switched to free floating text and i actually liked it. I have been using thunderbird with that setting for couple of months now and it doesnt hurt. I think the pan user should be able to choose whichever he feels comfortable with. > [start rant] > It's really annoying how young people today think that nobody ever read > text > before the invention of the iPad, and there is nothing to learn from the > print and publishing industries, who have been dealing with text > readability > issues for a few centuries now and might be expected to have learned a few > things. These young people need eighteen months of National Service to whip > them into shape. > [end rant] > > :-) > > > Only kidding about the National Service part, but the rest is only half > tongue in cheek. Really, publishers have been dealing with readability > issues for centuries, and have learned a few things about what makes text > easy to read. Really wide lines is *not* one of those things. > > > > -- > Steven > > ______________________________**_________________ > Pan-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/pan-users<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users> >
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