> On 25 Jan 97 at 18:47, Jeff wrote:
>
> > You just want to have your line breaks occur at around 75 columns,
> > and all should be well...
>
> I would suggest around 64. A lot of us set our newsreader/web
> browsers to a font size that accomodates this without engendering the
> need to scroll to the right to get the tail end of the line; having
> to scroll thus is *very* irritating.
While I agree that scrolling left to rigth is annoying, I have to say: "64
characters?!? Come on!"
70-75 characters is the standard; most of the world uses it. IMHO, 64 is
just too small... especially when you use a "legal" notation style for
your FAQ like I do.
On some sub points, I may be indented 15 spaces from the left margin, and
the paragraphs would just look plain silly 49 characters wide... they look
silly enough with 60 characters in them... :-)
But it is this disparity in tastes which makes HTML so wonderful...
Jeff
Jeff Knapp
director@gti.net
I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the
keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder
with a coathanger.
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