<br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Collin Kidder</b> <<a href="mailto:adderd@kkmfg.com">adderd@kkmfg.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
john-thomas richards wrote:<br>><br>> Bob is correct. Shorter lines such as his are easier to read on a printed<br>> page. Ever wonder why Bibles are printed with two narrow columns rather than<br>> like most other books? It is for this reason: it is easier to read. It
<br>> makes sense that the eye has less up and down movement with longer lines but<br>> the reality is that most people have a much more difficult time moving their<br>> eyes back to the beginning of the next line if it is several inches away from
<br>> the end of the previous line. So the reality is that the extra eye movements<br>> are compensated by a lack of "getting lost" trying to find the next line.<br>><br>> [snip]<br>><br>Umm... No... try again... Bob's posts are way harder to read. Take your
<br>post for instance. That's a nice, easy to read line length. His posts<br>are like reading an obituary. The number of characters across a line in<br>a paperback novel is really a decent compromise between long and short
<br>line length. Too short is just as annoying as READING ALL CAPS.</blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br>The writing style should be suitable for the intended audience. Newspapers have columns, to maximize the amount of content and structure the flow of text around captions and pictures.
<br>Nobody wants to read paragraph that has only one or two words in it, with others having been mangled by hyphenations. Like wise nobody wants to read a line that has too many words in it.<br>But hey, I went to Grand Rapids Public, so I may not be the one to say which is best.
<br><br>When coding, I tend to really over do the format, double spaces, camelBack, 2 space indentation, and I like my comments to be written in Arabic with butter and jam, so that I can really obfuscate my program. That last part was a complete dramatization.
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