Forum: Writers


Subject: Mechanics: line width

drace68 opened this issue on Oct 07, 2005 ยท 3 posts


drace68 posted Fri, 07 October 2005 at 6:59 AM

Hi,

Is there any way we could pull in the right margin so lines contain 10-12 words (5 letter average)? These old eyes of mine need what editors call "reader relief."

Dick


jstro posted Fri, 07 October 2005 at 11:29 AM

I know what you mean by old eyes. I have the same problem. But you can adjust the zoom level in most browsers. I used Firefox, but I just tested this in Internet Explorer too, and they both seem to work. If you have a middle mouse button wheel simply hold down the Control Key and give the wheel a spin. It will interactively adjust the zoom level of the browser. I couldn't live without it. If you don't have a middle mouse button wheel then I'm sure there are alternate ways to do this. You might have to poke around in your browser's advanced settings to find it, but I'm pretty sure it's there. jon

 
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drace68 posted Fri, 07 October 2005 at 9:15 PM

Hi Jon, Umm, no. The lines of text are still way up there in the 15-18 words-per-full-line range. What I'd like to see is a space reduction so the word wrap feature works after the 60 to 70 keystrokes - much as it does in this box. Normally I run my monitor at 800x600 pxls. Tonight I dropped it down for a few minutes to 640x480, and words-per- line remained the same, but then I had to shuttle to see a full line. I do have the type-view set to large in the Advanced Settings section. No middle mouse button here, but that won't change the word wrap margin, will it? And I, too, use Firefox 98% of the time. Thank you for your considerate response. Dick