David Abrahams wrote:
> on Mon Jul 02 2007, "Matias Capeletto"
> <matias.capeletto-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Like you I find long line lengths and large paragraphs almost
>>> impossible to grok, especially if the font is small.  However, I
>>> have to say that I find multi-columns even worse, *unless* you can
>>> guarentee that everything fits on one screen - even for folks
>>> reading on sub-mobiles with 8" screens or whatever.
>>
>> Me too. I think that people that want to read with shorter lines can
>> simply resize the browser's window.
>
> Except that doesn't work well either.  Look at
> http://freespace.virgin.net/boost.regex/toolkit/html/math_toolkit/backgrounders/remez.html.
> If you make it narrow enough to have readable lines, the figure is cut
> off. OK, I can make the window narrower and increase the font size.
> How much should I have to do when visiting a new page to make it
> legible?

Ideally, nothing at all.

However, those images aren't that wide: 590px or so isn't exactly huge IMO. 
On my screen if I resize so that the browser is the same width as the images 
then the max line length is 99 characters - over the recomended limit I 
agree.  One application of CTRL++ and that drops to 80 chars and is more 
than legible.  Perhaps we should revisit the decision to use such a small 
font size?

John.


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