>i use two different strategies. For tablets i pinch and zoom exactly to the >column, it is usually near the optimal newspaper size:). For computers i >select (reverse video) a section of the paragraph i am reading. This provides >a good sight line for my eye to do a proper carriage return. For long >paragraphs it may take several such selections, but both positive and negative >video are quite readable so usually only the middle third is needed.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Don Guinn <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 1 November 2013 10:28 subject: Re: [Jchat] Newspaper columns are easier to read than books >I find it easier to move to the next line with narrower columns. When text >goes all the way across the screen sometimes I pick the wrong line to continue >reading. -- from: Roger Hui <[email protected]> to: Chat Forum <[email protected]> date: 1 November 2013 10:27 subject: Re: [Jchat] Newspaper columns are easier to read than books >I don't have an answer, but I sympathize with the problem. I find that the >better websites (e.g. New York Times, Washington Post) do read quite well on >my Galaxy Tab 2 (7 inch, vertical format). >Recently I discovered to my pleasure that http://www.jsoftware.com/papersalso >read quite well on my Tab. For example, >http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm . That URL itself with the table of >contents frame on the left, isn't so great. But most xxx.htm on the website >have a corresponding xxx1.htm or xxxa.htm frame, and those pages (e.g. >http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL1.htm) read very well on the Tab. On the >website, the width of the lines on each "paper" is controlled by <table width=520 align=center><tr><td> blah blah blah de blah </td></tr></table> >Perhaps you can write a Javascript thing that accomplishes the same thing for >web pages that are not so written. -- from: Kenneth Lettow <[email protected]> to: [email protected] date: 1 November 2013 10:24 subject: Re: [Jchat] Newspaper columns are easier to read than books Hi Brian, >Take a look at http://www.readability.com . You have to register, but they >provide browser add-ins that allow you to reformat html pages for better >readability. It works pretty well. Ken -- from: Brian Schott <[email protected]> to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> date: 1 November 2013 09:55 subject: [Jchat] Newspaper columns are easier to read than books This is way off topic. >I find it very difficult to read text on a computer or tablet screen when the >lines are very long. I am wondering if other people have that problem also, >and if there is a simple solution that others have found. I have found that >manually transferring text to a text editor and then narrowing the row lengths >makes it much easier for me to read, much as if I were reading newspaper >columns. >My purpose is to either find an easy way to do this or to develop an easier >way myself, but I do not want to reinvent the wheel, nor to invent something >that no one else needs. Thanks in advance. --- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
