[Geany] OT: How to get shorter lines in the Geany manual?

[Randy Kramer]

On Saturday 29 August 2009 01:02:03 pm Enrico Tröger wrote:
> You were on the right way. Though docutils don't wrap the text at
> all, it's done with our custom CSS file.
> Find line 15 of doc/geany.css which reads like:
> width: 60em;
> in the "body" class. IIRC it defines the document width. You can
> either change it or remove it to have unwrapped lines, so your
> browser can do it on its own.
> Alternatively, you can change the used CSS style in your browser to
> use the "print" version. E.g. in Firefox click on View->Page
> Style->No Style, not sure how to do it in Konqueror.

Enrico,

Thanks very much!  The end result is fine, and, in fact, I'll have to 
remember to try a similar trick when I find other web pages that are 
too wide to read.

I expound / clarify a few things, some for you, and some for anybody 
else that wants to try the same thing, and then I have one question:

   * it turned out that changing doc/geany.css didn't work because there 
is a copy of the stylesheet embedded in the manual (geany.html)--it 
starts at line 20 which says: "@media screen {".  I commented out the 
width specification a few lines below that (with /*   */)

   * this  approach works for reading a local (downloaded) copy of the 
manual.  One way of downloading it is by using svn to download the 
entire geany source tree.  The manual is then under doc/geany.html.

This approach works very well--the main text wraps to the width of my 
browser's window, and, if I had a narrow enough window, I might have to 
horizontally scroll for some wide lines within HTML <pre> </pre> tags.  
Perfect--just the way it should work ;-)

Question: Is there any reason this couldn't or shouldn't be done for the 
copy of the manual on the web site?

Thanks again!

regards,
Randy Kramer

PS: I also looked at your suggestion using the "print" version on 
Firefox (well, Iceweasel on Debian).  That works fine, but, loses the 
background and some similar features--not really a problem.  I couldn't 
quite find a similar feature on konqueror--there are two almost similar 
features, but the one is not as nice as the Firefox feature, and the 
other didn't work for me:

   1) when you go Location -> Print to print a page and do a print 
preview, it will wrap to the width of the paper, but you can only view 
that as a print preview, which is not so friendly--links don't 
work--it's just an image of a printed page

   2) under Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Stylesheets there are 
some options that look like they should be helpful, one to use 
an "Accessibility Stylesheet" with a very limited amount of 
customization, and the second to use a "user defined stylesheet".  I 
tried both options (I tried to use a downloaded copy of geary.css as 
the user defined spreadsheet), and neither one seemed to have any 
effect