On 2025-02-27 19:01:04 +0800, Blair Noctis wrote: > It's kinda funny how in this world in 2025, where and when all > computers possess processing power several magnitudes higher than > Apollo Guidance Computer, some still believe that text should be > pre-formatted to a fixed length no matter what, because their > devices and/or reading facilities are, just like AGC, made for and > only for that fixed length, obviously unable to rearrange/re-format > it, while others with devices which have smaller screen estate, yet > re-format and render other, more complex content no problemo, or > just like their readings put at a different display length, actually > struggle to read the hard-wrapped-at-80-then-wrapped-again text.
At least, 80-column text remains readable even on small screens, contrary to most PDFs, which are also preformatted and are often used nowadays (including as email contents), even when this is not justified. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
