On 2005-10-13 | 20:06:50, Holger Weiss wrote:
Sorry for being picky, but if you have a look at a newspaper, you'll see that single stories are also split into multiple coloumns if they are long enough. This is done exclusively for readability. Also, as I said before, you'll hardly find _any_ book or article or whatever with line lengths considerably greater than 80 characters. For large paper formats, multiple coloumns will be used in almost all cases, not only for newspapers.
Newspapers are a compromise between tradition, usability and technical constraints. Most people would prefer a smaller (A5) size and end up folding the regular paper three or four times. This makes it necessary to keep related materials in close proximity.
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