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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Maximum line width of the workarea
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2009-06-30 12:58:41
Message-ID: h2d262$9ah$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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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
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http://www.kde-france.org


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