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 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden

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 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 10:06:05 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net 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

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Derek Tracy
2010/10/4 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com fthtmn%2bgen...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: Unfortunately Gentoo documentation uses table layout instead of relying entirely on CSS. Therefore it is not easy to make the docs beautiful for

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Derek Tracy trac...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/4 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: Unfortunately Gentoo documentation uses table layout instead of relying entirely on CSS. Therefore it

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

2010-10-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:32:57 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:16:24 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 1 Oct 2010, at 23:18, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are

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 grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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

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 grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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).

[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=1chap=2 The normal text paragraphs have lines

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

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
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

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 Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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:  

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Kirby
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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

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 grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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