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

[Barry van Oudtshoorn]

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 :).
>
>
>   
>>   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
>>     
>
> No idea, never used Konqueror.
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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