Barry van Oudtshoorn www.barryvan.com.au
Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:48:41 -0400, Randy wrote:
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 /* */)
Yo, sorry. I forgot to mention that you have to regenerate the .html file after changing the .css file.
- 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?
Not much. I personally just don't like if it is not wrapped because then it looks very ugly and is harder to read on my 22" wide screen. But this is a very personal thing, not really counting. Still not sure if we should change it.
Perhaps this is a potential candidate for CSS3 columns, then. :) That way, everyone would be happy.
PS: I also looked at your suggestion using the "print" version on Firefox (well, Iceweasel on Debian). That works fine, but, loses the
Yup, I'm using Debian and so Iceweasel as well but not everyone knows Iceweasel while it seems all the world knows Firefox :).
- 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
- 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
No idea, never used Konqueror.
Regards, Enrico
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