On 24 April 2017 at 08:33, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 04:27:15PM +1000, johntran...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > Hi, Scott. Thanks for replying. > > > > Agreed, no, you don’t need a horizonotal scrollbar > > on a proply-designed page, because you don’t need one. > > OK good. I just wanted to make sure we were seeing the same thing. > > > As they (all) say: > > > > Readability: the Optimal Line Length: Having the right amount of > characters on each line is key to the readability of your text. It > shouldn’t merely be your design that dictates the width of your text, it > should also be a matter of legibility. The optimal line length for your > body text is considered to be 50-60 characters per line, including spaces > (“Typographie”, E. Ruder). Other sources suggest that up to 75 characters > is acceptable. > > > > So can we have a page width of say 50 to 60 characters per line, > including spaces? > > I would be in favor of previewing this change. It should be configurable > somewhere in the Wiki settings. >
Hi John, I agree that from the perspective of readability it's not good with long lines of text. However, I think the way it works is simply due to how regular HTML/CSS and your browser works -- and perhaps also what was standard 10+ years ago when I set up the wiki. Btw, as a workaround that I just verified works in at least Safari: Make your browser window less wide, then the lines break earlier. As for settings in the wiki, I don't remember a setting for changing line width, it's all controlled via CSS that would need to be changed. Note that such a setting should likely only affect some of the HTML elements, e.g. we probably wouldn't want to limit the width of <code> or tables. If you want to propose a (CSS) change, we can give it a try. The basic CSS are as per the following file if I remember correctly: https://wiki.lyx.org/pub/skins/LyX/pmwiki.css Note: I don't know CSS well enough to know where/how to implement something that changes the line widths. Regards, Christian
