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>no complex two-column format, Two columns is for the reader's benefit - your eyes can keep their place on the page much more easily when jumping half the dist
by anon_tor_12345 5y ago
>no complex two-column format,
Two columns is for the reader's benefit - your eyes can keep their place on the page much more easily when jumping half the distance to the beginning of the next line
- fuzzybear3965 5y agoThat's what they tell you.
- Syzygies 5y agoTwo columns makes inappropriate assumptions about the reader's choice of media. The aging publisher assumes everyone prefers paper. A reader attempting to scroll through the article on a tablet suffers. We blew it, making a global effort to perfect fixed format technical typesetting rather than flowable text. Technical flowable text is just now becoming viable, and it is certainly not the norm for journal articles.