On 28 January 2013 22:17, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is an ideal column width for readability, which
is well understood in
newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
think its around 10 words.
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
like a newspaper is
https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/
- brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really
confusing.
- d.