Lex,
Hi!
On Sunday 22 May 2011 07:14:20 am Lex Trotman wrote:
Well this is intended as a manual not wiki pages. Text documents like this should not be unconstrained width, but as far as I can find there is no way of limiting width in Docuwiki. And its own manual is an example of how hard it is to read unconstrained width text. Imagine the Geany manual displayed with unconstrained width :-(
I'm curious as to what you mean by unconstrained width, and what you see in your browser(s).
Let me tell you what I see in my browsers:
Iceweasel (Firefox/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1) on Debian 5.0): The behavior here is reasonably nice. The actual text of a document wraps to the width of the window (this is good, afaic). Oh, and so do the colored bars at the top and bottom (at first I didn't think they did, because of the way they are displayed in konqueror.
Konqueror (Konqueror 3.5.9 (on kde 3.5.10) on Debian 5.0): The behavior here is not as nice. The colored bars at the top and bottom of the page are of a fixed width (which probably varies based on the font and font size used??). On my main screen, the bars are about half the witdth of the screen. The text wraps to the width of those bars and does not adjust based on the width of the window.
This is sort of OK (on konqueror), because: * the text does wrap, so I don't have to scroll horizontally to view long lines of text * the width that it wraps to (for me) is reasonably comfortable for reading, and I can shrink the window to about half the width of the screen and still read complete lines without horizontal scrolling * if I shrink the window further, I have to scroll horizontally to read lines
(Just as an aside, I should point out that this is better than some web pages where I can't even scroll horizontally to read a complete line (maybe when the page is in the form of a table with columns and the text is in one of those columns). The best I can do then is copy and paste the text to a plain text editor (or, usually, open it in Firefox) to read the entire text.)
Anyway, so to me, the text is not unconstrained (by which I would mean long lines of text that don't wrap under any circumstance).
What do you see in your browser(s)? And (if it's not obvious) what do you object to?
regards, Randy Kramer