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Old 11-11-2007, 12:42 AM   #36
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doctorow said:
> I use the fixed-style layout, and this is the max width

you could change to the liquid layout. or ask the designer of this site to
change the underlying code that limits the column to that width, even for
those of us (including you and i) who have monitors that'd go much wider.
or you can increase the font-size just a little bit more, so each of my lines
would fill out _two_ complete lines on your screen. or perhaps change to
another font, with different metrics, most particularly a "narrow" variant...
you might even make a feature request to the programmers of the software
used in this forum to code a routine that would automatically unwrap lines.
(it's easy enough to do; if they have questions about it, i can answer 'em.)
or you could just live with the chopped lines, though i agree they are ugly...

and it's very interesting, because -- in the screenshot that you showed us --
the lines _would_have_worked_ if they'd only have been a little bit shorter.
but most people are complaining because the lines are already _too_short_.
ironic, 'eh?


> yet I fail to understand why you

as i've said before, it's my form of self-expression. i'm sorry if you don't like it.
if i was writing posts to please you, i'd change. but i'm not. sorry about that...
fortunately, there's nothing compelling you to read my posts. indeed, you can
even ignore them completely -- have 'em turned into whitespace -- by merely
setting a parameter in your options. or, you know, you can just skip over them.
because of my formatting, it's easy to pick 'em out, even from across the room.
it won't hurt my feelings if you don't read my posts because of the formatting...
i promise...

-bowerbird
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