On 2005-10-12 | 17:04:12, Holger Weiss wrote:
So? Newspapers could of course easily widen their columns to whatever number of characters they see fit, but they keep the number small for a good reason. BTW, we're not only talking about newspapers; you'll hardly find _any_ printed material with a line length significantly greater than 80 characters (apart from badly typeset MS Word stuff or the like). This has nothing to do with 80x25 terminal limitations.
You completely ignore that I have pointed out some important differences between newspapers and terminals:
Newspapers are seldom held exactly horizontal. Longer lines mean more (unwanted) vertical eye movement.
Newspapers use hyphenation and more than one column. Imagine a paper that uses only one column and leaves ~70% of the page empty. That is what mutt does with the terminal! Now go and try to figure out how columns could be done in the terminal. Tom
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