Re: length of text lines

> I wish there was a way to specify a line length in CSS,
but if there is then
> I have yet to discover it. I think this is a major
omission in CSS1 (or I'm
> just stupid to see it. One or the other.)
> 
> 
> --
> David Meadows [ Technical Writer | Information Developer ]

Would this not be possible using the "em" measurement?
Perhaps I am the stupid one, but line length is basically
the interior box size for a given section of text. You
have a paragraph of text, you want it a certain line
length. Meaning you want the box to be a certain width.
You want it to be related to font-size, so use em.

p.nearlyperfectlinelength { width : 65em }

(I realize that browsers interpret em differently. oh, for
a perfect world with perfectly standards compliant
browsers!)

This is getting back onto the style-sheet end of things,
but theory needs application sometimes. :) As far as
perfect length goes, it seems to me that online it is
easier to read even shorter lines, say <1.5 alphabets.
Perhaps this is because I tend to just skim most text
online. For reading paragraph after paragraph carefully, I
prefer longer lines. (less scrolling!) I think that you
also have to be careful of too small lines of text,
especially with larger fonts. Two to three words per line
drives me crazy.

Luke

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