On 28 January 2013 22:17, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in
> newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
> think its around 10 words.


Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
like a newspaper is https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/
- brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really
confusing.


- d.

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