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

John Gabriele jmg3000 at xxxxx
Mon Aug 31 01:49:07 UTC 2009


>> 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.
>>

Hi,

:lurkmode off

Just to give a little context here, the Geany manual was originally
written in docbook. A while back, I wanted to make some edits but
didn't want to work with docbook, and so converted the manual to
[reST](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html). While I was at it, I
included some simple CSS to spruce up the look of it -- but note that
I'm no web designer. The powers that be accepted the recoded manual
and liked the CSS well enough to bring it along for the ride. I don't
think it's been changed since then.

My guess is that if some plucky web designer came along and created an
updated (or new) css file for the manual, and provided a link to a
sample so everyone could have a look, it might stand a chance of
replacing the current one. That's just my guess though.

---John



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