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> No disrespect, but surely that's your problem? Not really: I have what is called a 17" screen. Such a screen size may still be common on desktop computers
by graycat 12y ago
> No disrespect, but surely that's your problem?
Not really: I have what is called a 17" screen. Such a screen size may still be common on desktop computers and has to be common on laptop computers. For tablets and smart phones, the screen widths are much narrower.
My solution is to copy the text to the clipboard, copy it into my favorite editor, and use a macro I wrote that reflows lines but honors the existing left margins.
The screen I have was a relatively large screen when I
bought it. But, sure, the
next time I buy a computer, and, thus, put up with all the struggle of getting all my software running and configured again, e.g., get the 2003 version of Microsoft Office running with all its many updates, no doubt I will get a wide screen.
Still, there is an issue: Readability. E.g., long newspapers used pages, like screens, so wide that they could easily have had 161 characters per line but, still,
stayed with narrow columns, supposedly for 'readability'. There are suggestions that a narrow column permits less left to right eye movement.
On readability, in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046141
below in this thread is
> "The aim of web design is not to use all available screen space. It is legibility. Text is most legible with no more than 70 characters per line."
- anigbrowl 12y agoI had a 17" screen until last year. I can't say I recall this being a problem, but then I consider layout of plain text something that should ultimately be managed at client side.