On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:36:32 +0000, Duncan wrote: > ashwin kesavan posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:20:37 +0530 as excerpted: > ..... ....
> Pan has a togglable wrap option, but depending on the original post > format, I'm not sure it'll do what you want. > > In one mode, pan doesn't wrap at all, presenting the text as it was > posted. That means if it was posted with hard-wrap at 80 characters, > that's what pan will show. If it was posted with 1000 character long > lines, that's what pan will show in this mode too, and you'll have to do > a lot of horizontal scrolling unless you have pan's body pane spread > across multiple terminals so it's wide enough to show 1000 character > lines without scrolling. > > This unwrapped mode is best for displaying mono-space formatted > ASCII-art, tables with aligned columns, etc, and sometimes is needed to > align these properly even in posts that need wrapped for ordinary prose. > > In the other mode, pan does its own rewrapping to the standard just > under 80 characters, regardless of what the original post was wrapped > at. This is best for ordinary prose where rewrapping doesn't change the > semantic content. > > But there's no mode that wraps to the arbitrary window width regardless > of whether that's 20 or 220 characters, and I think that's what you're > asking for. Yes , thats correct. Thats what i was looking for. > > What I've found, however, is that for large wide windows, multi-pane > layout with the body pane beside the group pane so neither one is full > width, with a full-width header pane to best display all possible > columns with the subject and author columns both quite wide to better > display longer names, seems to work best. > > ASCII-art of my layout: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | s a subject author date bytes lines score | > |--------------------------------------------------------------| > | o x header pane duncan now xx yy -- | > | | > | | > | | > | | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | body pane | group pane | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Of course the header pane could be below or the group pane to the left, > if it fits your style better... > > The body pane is set to ~90 character width, so wrapped text doesn't > look too out of place. The group pane can have the abbreviated group > names option turned on or off depending on how long your subscribed > group names actually are, and how much space you have left to display it > beside the body pane. The header pane is full width, thus allowing > longer than average subject lines to display fully or nearly fully, > without crimping the author column too much or forcing omission of some > of the less important columns. I like this layout better than other layout i was using (the default one). The layout you mentioned is so much better. But i still feel that text that wraps around the window length would be better. Thank you for the support. > > A screen shot (note that I run triple stacked full-HD monitors, so it's > pretty big, 3240x1960, also, moderate possibly NSFW warning due to > swimsuit model firefox skin) can be found at: > > http://wstaw.org/m/2013/05/11/duncan-fullscreen.png > > Pan is of course on the middle monitor, there. > > (The top monitor is 21", the two bottom monitors are actually 42" TVs, > thus the far larger fonts in the superkaramba system monitoring theme on > the top one.) with regards, ashwin _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
