Daniel Choi (2008-10-26 14:12 -0700): > Is there any consensus whether you use should a textwidth of 70 or > 80 or any other value when writing text documents such as README, > INSTALL, etc?
There may be technical standards for text terminals but there are also typographic conventions. It's more difficult to follow wide lines and to find the beginning of the next line. In typographic design it is suggested that a line should be approximately 60 - 65 characters long. In practice it also depends on the font and line spacing but I'd say that about 70 characters should be the maximum in fixed width texts such as those used in text documents and emails. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
