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Comments: BPGB: A Tale of Two Lengths
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Reading texts longer that 80 chars / line is hard. Period.
BTW: your blog, on my small screen laptop (13' MBP) has lines 150 characters long, which is twice the recommended length, and shows how little you know about the subject.
I have noted over time that style-based decisions are very much dependent on personal opinion. Looking at a handful of documents immediately reachable from my desk, I see max line lengths ranging from 70-110. All of them appear quite readable.
As for the length of the lines on my blog, that's set by how wide you make the window. Sorry if it's two wide on your screen.
The punch card comment just refers back to where we got the 80-character limit, nothing more.
The point of the post was not the 80 character limit, but the relation between that and another arbitrary limit.
Reading texts longer that 80 chars / line is hard. Period.
BTW: your blog, on my small screen laptop (13' MBP) has lines 150 characters long, which is twice the recommended length, and shows how little you know about the subject.
Your argument about punch cards is irrelevant.
Your whole post (and your credibility) collapses.
S.
Posted by: Stefane Fermigier | January 11, 2015 12:38 PM
Stefane,
Thanks for your comments.
I have noted over time that style-based decisions are very much dependent on personal opinion. Looking at a handful of documents immediately reachable from my desk, I see max line lengths ranging from 70-110. All of them appear quite readable.
As for the length of the lines on my blog, that's set by how wide you make the window. Sorry if it's two wide on your screen.
The punch card comment just refers back to where we got the 80-character limit, nothing more.
The point of the post was not the 80 character limit, but the relation between that and another arbitrary limit.
I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.
Posted by: G. Wade | January 11, 2015 01:28 PM