[GRLUG] Just for Bob

[Collin Kidder]

john-thomas richards wrote:
>
> Bob is correct.  Shorter lines such as his are easier to read on a printed
> page.  Ever wonder why Bibles are printed with two narrow columns rather than
> like most other books?  It is for this reason: it is easier to read.  It
> makes sense that the eye has less up and down movement with longer lines but
> the reality is that most people have a much more difficult time moving their
> eyes back to the beginning of the next line if it is several inches away from
> the end of the previous line.  So the reality is that the extra eye movements
> are compensated by a lack of "getting lost" trying to find the next line.
>
> [snip]
>   
Umm... No... try again... Bob's posts are way harder to read. Take your 
post for instance. That's a nice, easy to read line length. His posts 
are like reading an obituary. The number of characters across a line in 
a paperback novel is really a decent compromise between long and short 
line length. Too short is just as annoying as READING ALL CAPS.