Have you checked your line width lately?
November 2, 2021 4:38 PM   Subscribe

 
I think the take home message is that everyone should be writing in LaTeX in an 80 character terminal. I agree, wholeheartedly.
posted by eotvos at 4:55 PM on November 2, 2021 [13 favorites]


This is why I like reading web pages on my tablet--or even my phone--better than my desktop.

*glances meaningfully at MetaFilter*
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:03 PM on November 2, 2021 [1 favorite]


This seems like a great argument against newfangled (by some standards) WYSIWYG page-layout-obsessed word processors. If you want shorter lines in (say) Notepad, you can just set the window narrower.

Similarly, I can change the width of a webpage on a desktop/laptop but not on my tablet.
posted by Western Infidels at 6:27 PM on November 2, 2021 [1 favorite]


It sounds like it's not specifically "characters per line" but "make text easier to read." I gave in to blowing up my text size long ago and I think it has helped. Lots of people likely need glasses or a prescription adjustment and don't realize it, so I can see this working for a lot of people but not everyone. Taking that extra strain off your brain certainly makes it easier to write.
posted by brook horse at 7:03 PM on November 2, 2021 [4 favorites]


I prefer a fixed-pitch typeface* when writing. I get a better sense of how long my sentences and paragraphs are if every character is the same width.

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*Comic Sans not a font. It's a typeface. A font is a typeface of a particular point size.
posted by SPrintF at 7:03 PM on November 2, 2021 [14 favorites]


In another life “I think you mean typeface” is my Metafilter name.
posted by chrchr at 9:56 PM on November 2, 2021 [19 favorites]


A font is a typeface of a particular point size.

Reminds me of a favorite joke:

"Knock Knock"
"Who's there?"
"To"
"To who?"
"To Whom!"
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 10:30 PM on November 2, 2021 [27 favorites]


This video marks the first time I've ever heard someone pronounce sans that way and it's like nails on chalkboard.
posted by emelenjr at 5:35 AM on November 3, 2021 [4 favorites]


I'm not sure how else you pronounce "sans" in English though?
posted by Archer25 at 7:42 AM on November 3, 2021 [1 favorite]


"To Whom!"

I have a friend who likes to tell this joke and always asks to borrow someone's glasses and puts them on way down on his nose before telling it. That way, when he says "To whom!" he can push the glasses up from the tip of your nose.
posted by msbrauer at 8:16 AM on November 3, 2021 [3 favorites]


that's how i've pronounced "sans" in "comic sans" for decades. how else? comic sahhhhhns?
posted by misanthropicsarah at 11:58 AM on November 3, 2021


/sɑ̃/.
posted by wachhundfisch at 7:09 AM on November 4, 2021 [1 favorite]


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