Re: Nabble Editor line wrapping
Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-Editor-line-wrapping-tp7601337p7601338.html
Hi David,
I think that you may have missed a fundamental point about the web. How a "document" (that includes pages on a forum) is rendered depends on the equipment and settings used by the recipient. Here's your message displayed on my phone:
Note how the text wraps at about 36 characters when in portrait mode but there's considerably more room when in landscape mode. Note that I'm only seeing the text that way because of the font and font size that is set in my phone's browser (I can change them if I wish but if I changed them to show 75 characters per line the text would become too small to read). And, of course, it will be rendered in a different font and at a different size on my desktop. Not only that, for anyone using a laptop or desktop computer, there will be an almost infinite number of widths at which someone can set their window size and this will affect the point at which text wraps.
In short, do not expect anyone else to see things the way you do. Some won't even see the screen they'll hear it. The blind will use screen reader software as do car drivers who manage their email using voice activation software, dictating replies on the move.
It may help you to know that if you are working on a laptop/desktop computer your browser will allow you to make a certain amount of adjustment of the edit box. At the bottom right below the scrollbar there will be a re-size handle, which allows to to shrink or stretch the edit box both vertically and horizontally. It does nothing to set the word wrapping, but may help you to see how the post might look on other people's devices:
If it is impossible to demonstrate your point without a fixed width, and I accept that might be necessary if the output of GnuCash is expected always to be printed, then it may be best to prepare a PDF file and attach that to your posts on Nabble.
Another possible approach would be to take a screenshot and upload that portion of your message as an image - but that might either lead to the image being shrunk to the width of the users screen, making things illegible, or require awkward horizontal scrolling of the screen. (Note that, on Nabble, the scrollbar will appear at the bottom of the post and not immediately under the over-sized image, and it is easy for those using Nabble to miss it!)
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-Editor-line-wrapping-tp7601337p7601338.html
Hi David,
I think that you may have missed a fundamental point about the web. How a "document" (that includes pages on a forum) is rendered depends on the equipment and settings used by the recipient. Here's your message displayed on my phone:
Note how the text wraps at about 36 characters when in portrait mode but there's considerably more room when in landscape mode. Note that I'm only seeing the text that way because of the font and font size that is set in my phone's browser (I can change them if I wish but if I changed them to show 75 characters per line the text would become too small to read). And, of course, it will be rendered in a different font and at a different size on my desktop. Not only that, for anyone using a laptop or desktop computer, there will be an almost infinite number of widths at which someone can set their window size and this will affect the point at which text wraps.
In short, do not expect anyone else to see things the way you do. Some won't even see the screen they'll hear it. The blind will use screen reader software as do car drivers who manage their email using voice activation software, dictating replies on the move.
It may help you to know that if you are working on a laptop/desktop computer your browser will allow you to make a certain amount of adjustment of the edit box. At the bottom right below the scrollbar there will be a re-size handle, which allows to to shrink or stretch the edit box both vertically and horizontally. It does nothing to set the word wrapping, but may help you to see how the post might look on other people's devices:
If it is impossible to demonstrate your point without a fixed width, and I accept that might be necessary if the output of GnuCash is expected always to be printed, then it may be best to prepare a PDF file and attach that to your posts on Nabble.
Another possible approach would be to take a screenshot and upload that portion of your message as an image - but that might either lead to the image being shrunk to the width of the users screen, making things illegible, or require awkward horizontal scrolling of the screen. (Note that, on Nabble, the scrollbar will appear at the bottom of the post and not immediately under the over-sized image, and it is easy for those using Nabble to miss it!)
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