Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Derek Tracy wrote: > > 2010/10/4 Fatih Tümen >> >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: >> > Unfortunately Gentoo documentation uses table layout instead of >> > relying entirely on CSS. Therefore it is not easy to make the docs >> > beautiful fo

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Derek Tracy
2010/10/4 Fatih Tümen > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Unfortunately Gentoo documentation uses table layout instead of > > relying entirely on CSS. Therefore it is not easy to make the docs > > beautiful for everybody right now. But there is a simple workaround > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Unfortunately Gentoo documentation uses table layout instead of > relying entirely on CSS. Therefore it is not easy to make the docs > beautiful for everybody right now. But there is a simple workaround > which you may find good enough. Add

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 04 October 2010 03:00:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:32:57 +0100 Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, > > > durch die sie entstanden sind. > > > > Ple

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 October 2010 03:00:10 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:32:57 +0100 Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, > > > durch die sie entstanden sind. > > > > Ple

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:32:57 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > > Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, > > durch die sie entstanden sind. > > Please translate into English - thanks. We can't solve problems by using t

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, > durch die sie entstanden sind. Please translate into English - thanks. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:16:24 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 1 Oct 2010, at 23:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards > > wrote: > >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > >> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't u

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Oct 2010, at 23:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are >> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I >> wouldn't swear to that). > > As fas as I c

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-01 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I > wouldn't swear to that). As fas as I can remember they've always been that wide. Anyway, sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Jacob Todd
They're readable even on my droid x. On Sep 30, 2010 1:15 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I > wouldn't swear to that). > > For example, look at this page: > > http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are >> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I >> wouldn't swear to that). >> >> For example, l

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I > wouldn't swear to that). > > For example, look at this page: > >  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embed

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Al
Hi Grant, I can only confirm this. Long lines are difficult to focus, so they are tiresome to read. For this reason typical newspapers have small columns. Personally I even prefer to read ebooks on the very small display of a mobile phone. Al

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards 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?

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 30 September 2010, Grant Edwards wrote: > > That has lines that average about 140 characters. That's still much > longer than what I'd consider good practice. I am counting 105. > > Do the extremely long lines in the handbook web pages bother anybody > else? not me. Not with kon

[gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I wouldn't swear to that). For example, look at this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 The normal text paragraphs have lines