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> TeX has a default of 66 characters per line. LaTeX defaults to that, but Plain TeX defaults to 10pt font with 1in margins, which is ~100 characters per line
by gucci-on-fleek 1y ago
> TeX has a default of 66 characters per line.
LaTeX defaults to that, but Plain TeX defaults to 10pt font with 1in margins, which is ~100 characters per line (which much too long to be readable).
- close04 1y agoJust to put in perspective, on a 1080p screen with no zooming the line length in a top level HN comment is ~200 characters including spaces. It's bearable because the comments tend to have just a few lines and a tree structure to avoid the wall of text. The blog referenced in the article as "extremely, almost unreadably bad" clocks in at ~300 characters per line, with the classic wall of text appearance which makes it very tiring to read.