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Aren't columns actually used because it's easier to read shorter lines of text than long ones?
by javert 15y ago
Aren't columns actually used because it's easier to read shorter lines of text than long ones?
- scott_s 15y agoThat was what I just said, yes.
- javert 15y agoYou seemed to be suggesting that it had something to do with margins, which is actually a different issue than column width. In a newspaper, you can have a lot of columns with small margins, for example. You also seemed to be suggesting that it had something to do with separating different stories on the same page.
- scott_s 15y agoWhen you have one column of text, as in the frontpage of HN, large margins implies a narrow column of text. My point about separate stories is that it is independent of them. Magazines and newspapers layout their stories in columns. I was anticipating someone saying "Yes, but they also show multiple stories on one page." But magazines and newspapers still use narrow columns of text even when they have a single story on the page.
- javert 15y agoThanks for the clarification.