Re: Gnome user's guide line length?

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 15:12, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> Looking at 
> http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/gnome2.0-users-guide.pdf
> and
> http://docs-pdf.sun.com/817-1027/817-1027.pdf (found at
> http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1027?q=GNOME&s=t)
> the content of the two are essentially the same, but the line length of
> the latter is much shorter (and hence more readable) than the official
> GNOME version.
> 
> According to The Elements of Typographic Style (page 27), "more than
> 75 or 80 characters is likely to be too long for continuous reading."
> 
> I am wondering what the rationale are behind the current style sheet and
> what could be done to make the GNOME version more readable.
> 
> (Please CC me, I'm not on this list.)
> 

Indeed, the Sun version does look nicer and read more easily. Any
volunteers with the time and/or pdf generation expertise to work on
this?

Cheers,
John
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