jim said:
I know how to hack browsers to do this but your average book-reader customer does not.
i think the "average" person knows how to resize text in their web-browser. but if not, let's teach 'em now! in firefox, which is the browser we are talking about, look under the "view" menu, where you will find "zoom". select "zoom in" for bigger text, "zoom out" for smaller. see, that wasn't so hard, was it? now you're smarter!
If you make the lines shorter it still doesn't wrap lines.
ok, so now everyone is in complete agreement here, right? firefox does not wrap the lines when displaying a .txt file. and there's no need for anyone to repeat this yet again, ok? we finally found something that everyone agrees on! great!
...if one has a display capable of usably displaying 80 chars per line, a display which is known generically as a "teletype display" -- circa 1970. The teletype was set at this number of chars to use up the entire width of a standard 8.5 wide roll of paper.
gosh darn, jim, thanks so much for that history lesson. if anyone is running firefox on a machine with a screen that is incapable of displaying an eighty-character-line, please say so, and we'll figure out how we can help you. our first suggestion will likely be to abandon the .txt file, and use the .html version instead, because it can reflow... so try that. if it doesn't work, come back for more help! *** walter said:
And this is precisely the kind of message which makes volunteers go away. There is nothing constructive about this.
walter, i thought you said i was in your kill-file? so how come you're reading my posts, and even quoting them, and replying to them? why, walter? -bowerbird