> Yes, my original intent was to pick a specific maximum column for code. > I didn't figure out how to both pick a specific width in characters and > allow the font to be the user's chosen monospace font, so I made the > width 43ems, which works out to 69 characters in my browser.
FWIW, monospaced fonts typically have characters that are 0.6em wide. So the expected width of a line of monospaced text in ems = (* chars 0.6). To convert to pixels, note that the width of an em is the same as the current font size. So the expected width in pixels = (* chars 0.6 font-size-in-pixels) For docs, 70 or 72 pixels seems like a reasonable limit. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
