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Re: [porting] web page widths


On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:14:14AM +0100, Jesper Skov wrote:

> Grant> I've notced that the minimum width of the right hand column of
> Grant> the web pages (white background with text) is set by the width
> Grant> of any <pre></pre> sections (usually containing souce code
> Grant> examples). On some pages those examples contain long lines,
> Grant> resulting in tables where the normal (non-preformatted)
> Grant> paragraphs have very long lines that don't wrap to fit
> Grant> reasonable window widths. The user has to scroll left/right to
> Grant> read the text.
> 
> Presumably this is the redboot-timer.h page you are referring to? I'll
> break the line.

I don't remember.  I noticed it on several of the porting
pages. I printed out 4-5 of them and they all were chopped off
on the right hand side because the width of <pre></pre>
sections were wider than the page, and all of the other <p></p>
sections wrap to the same width as the widest <pre></pre>.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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