From lyx-devel Tue Jun 30 12:58:41 2009 From: Charles de Miramon Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:58:41 +0000 To: lyx-devel Subject: Maximum line width of the workarea Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=124636674407302 Hello, I have updated to 1.6.3 and the full screen mode works much better. Thanks for the work. But after working a full day in full screen mode on an 17" monitor my eyes were strained because lines of text are much too wide if you cannot resize the window. Fullscreen wordprocessors tend to draw the text between large margins (see for example scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/screens8.html). The common ergonomical rule is that lines (on screen or printed) should be around 65 characters wide. LyX logic today is to fill the width of the window. I would suggest to have a little more elaborate mechanism : 1) fill the width of window 2) if the window width is larger than the maximum number of characters (default 65) than modify the viewport of the workarea and center it in the window. An even more elaborate mechanism would consider that lines of text should have a maximum width but floats (tables, figures) should be able to fill all the width of the window. If there is consensus on this wish, I'll file an enhencement request in Trac. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org