Does anyone wish that eReaders and apps would allow you to adjust line-length ?

[SirHumphrey]

Maybe this is just me, but I think that adjusting line-length would be much better than adjusting the margin size because that is what people want to make longer or shorter in most cases.

I think I am especially affected because I like to read some books in paged mode and some books in scroll mode (where I need to have huge margins to make the line length bearable in horizontal mode).

Also I've noticed that on some apps (not the one I use at the moment, but interesting to note regardless) I have 2 columns in horizontal mode (on some eReading aps, the margin gets doubled up and appears to be a doubly big space (because if the margin is 20 px, it appears to the eye that the two margins between the columns are one big 40 px space).

[JSWolf]

Adjusting line-length won't work. Margins do work.

[SirHumphrey]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Adjusting line-length won't work. Margins do work.

Why not ? Through CSS, it could be easily done with something like

.column {width: 40em;}

as seen here.

[JSWolf]

That won't work with ADE. I just tried it with ADE 2.0.1 and Calibre's viewer and both ended up pushing what was on screen off tot he right and oout of bounds of the window. Better off to use a left/right margin of 30em. That would work. What you want to do is done with left/right margins.

[SirHumphrey]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

That won't work with ADE. I just tried it with ADE 2.0.1 and Calibre's viewer and both ended up pushing what was on screen off tot he right and oout of bounds of the window. Better off to use a left/right margin of 30em. That would work. What you want to do is done with left/right margins.

While I didn't try it with ADE, if you try it in scrolling mode where Calibre (where the default styling is disabled, which would otherwise interfere with the new width it should work).

Regardless, I'm asking if people actually think this feature would be more useful than just margins.

I have a question for you: When you are setting the margins, are you more concerned with how close the lines are to the edges of the screen or are you concerned with how long the lines are ?

[sjfan]

Originally Posted by SirHumphrey

I have a question for you: When you are setting the margins, are you more concerned with how close the lines are to the edges of the screen or are you concerned with how long the lines are ?

The former. I typically set the margins so there's a small visible gap between the letters and the edge of the screen, but I'll make them a bit bigger if I'm using a larger font so that it still looks balanced.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by sjfan

The former. I typically set the margins so there's a small visible gap between the letters and the edge of the screen, but I'll make them a bit bigger if I'm using a larger font so that it still looks balanced.

Works for your screen on device 1. The problem with 0 margin is the bezel display module relationship. These are not precision devices. Your screen may be slightly high-right.
BTW I think the width attribute is mainly for images and table columns