[GRLUG] Just for Bob

[Justin Denick]

On 11/2/07, Collin Kidder <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


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.
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.
But hey, I went to Grand Rapids Public, so I may not be the one to say which
is best.

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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