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

Dorian M. pr.dorian at xxxxx
Sat Aug 29 15:26:02 UTC 2009


Hello, you can copy/paste text in OpenOffice.org or Miscrisoft Office.

2009/8/29 Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>

> I found SciTE/scintilla a few months ago, and a few days ago learned
> about Geany--it looks good to me--some of the things I was wishing were
> part of SciTE seem to be already part of Geany.
>
> But, I have some off-point questions:  The manual (at
> file:///usr/share/doc/geany/html/index.html) is too wide for me to
> reasonably read.  I have to scroll horizontally to read each line of
> text, even with shrinking the font to the limit in konqueror.  (I'm
> older, and I generally use larger fonts to make reading easier.)
>
> I could copy and paste the document into an editor (like Geany) where
> the lines do wrap to the width of the window, but I lose a lot of the
> formatting and conveniences (like links) that way.
>
> I see that the document is written in  reStructuredText and then, iiuc,
> rendered (is that the right word) using docutils.  Does anyone (here)
> know how to tell docutils (or reST) how to wrap the text to a narrower
> width (shorter line length)?
>
> (I checked a few of the lines and got a character count around 115
> characters per line.)
>
> Continuing with similar questions, is there something in the text of the
> manual that forces the lines to such a long length, maybe either
> pictures or the tables that are included?  If so, is there a way to
> tell docutils to wrap the rest of the text to a narrower width?  (So
> I'd only have to horizontally scroll for the pictures or tables?--I
> don't really like having to horizontally scroll for those, either, but
> it's better than having to horizontally scroll for every line in the
> document.)
>
> Or, alternatively, a way to tell docutils to leave the lines unwrapped
> so the browser can wrap them to the width of the browser window, while
> leaving pictures or tables at their full width?
>
> I did try googling for docutils to find information or someone to ask
> there--I didn't find either the information or an obvious contact, so I
> thought I'd try here first.
>
> Thanks!
> Randy Kramer
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