Timeline for How long are the lines?
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| Oct 24, 2023 at 11:13 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | +1 from me - mainly for the most recent update. | |
| Oct 15, 2023 at 16:24 | history | edited | domotorp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 15, 2023 at 16:08 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | @domotorp My point is that it just doesn't matter if the preview line breaking matches the final thing on your system, since in any case the odds are low for either of these to match up with what other people see, with a different screen, different browser, different text magnification, etc. It is like an author trying to make their sentences align with the sunlight on their veranda as they write the words and the pattern it makes on their tablecloth, even though perhaps nobody else will experience the words that way. | |
| Oct 15, 2023 at 14:46 | comment | added | Dale | It's actually a philosophical question; the entire web concept is structured around "text flows and the displaying device decides where to break the lines". Thus any consideration of the author trying to control the breaking of lines (except specifying places where a line break must be placed) is the Wrong Thing. (The gotcha is that graphic artists are obsessed with controlling line breaking etc. so they are constantly devising ways to force it, which basically Don't Work Well because the web infrastructure isn't intended to support that.) | |
| Oct 13, 2023 at 11:05 | answer | added | Peter Taylor | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 12, 2023 at 8:22 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek |
By the way, if all you really want is to prevent a last word of a paragraph to fall on a line by itself, just use a non-breaking space: ... like this.
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| Oct 12, 2023 at 7:03 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 12, 2023 at 4:23 | answer | added | domotorp | timeline score: -4 | |
| Oct 12, 2023 at 4:20 | comment | added | domotorp | Yes, I fully agree with that. Yet, I see no reason why the line breaks should be different in the preview window and the actual final question. Maybe I will run a survey about how different line breaks really are for different users. | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 16:41 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | The real issue is that the mathematics community needs to move beyond pdf and page-oriented systems to a typesetting system that makes sense with the diverse screens we now have for reading mathematical texts. Worrying about line breaks on a particular system seems short-sighted--what we need rather are robust systems that enable our mathematics to look good reliably on a huge variety of screens. | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 15:41 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Let us also not forget that the layout of the site changes from time to time. Even if it is a few pixel difference, it will wreak havoc to any kind of intentional line-break placement. | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Perhaps it does not depend much on the browser (especially if they use the same underlying rendering engine), but it definitely depends on the fonts, which differ between platforms. You will definitely not see the same line breaks on Windows and on Linux, for that reason. There is a terrible precedent of another user who left some time ago, active especially on cstheory (you can still find many of his posts), who did all kinds of micromanagement of line breaks, spacing, etc., both in posts and in comments. This resulted in a god-awful unreadable mess that only worked in his browser it appears. | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 9:32 | comment | added | Todd Leason | You can put your question into a pdf, store the pdf on the internet (personal page at university, homepage, some cloud storage, etc.) and post an MO question, that just contains the link (maybe named as 'question'). In the pdf you have full control of the question's layout. | |
| Oct 10, 2023 at 14:40 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | I guess you care that your text looks good in your display width, regardless of how bad it looks in other display widths. Personally, I do not worry about how text is broken between lines except for mathematical expressions broken poorly between lines. I notice (but do not obsess about) punctuation at the end of a sentence that appears by itself at the beginning of the next line. | |
| Oct 10, 2023 at 7:12 | comment | added | domotorp | It's nice to know that I'm not the only person bothered by this. | |
| Oct 10, 2023 at 4:54 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | This is about nominations, not above posts: Can the nomination preview have the same width as the real nomination? This if from the answer posted by one of the developers - I assume it works exactly the same for the posts: "Please keep in mind that ... the text will shrink to accommodate the voting controls." In short: I guess that the width of preview is approximately the width of post + the width reserved for voting buttons. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 13:30 | history | edited | domotorp |
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| Oct 9, 2023 at 12:57 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | If the "lower window" means the window showing the preview, then the tag (markdown-preview) might be suitable here. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 10:29 | comment | added | domotorp | I tried and for me it is the same on different browsers (assuming large enough width) and I would assume that most people also read mathoverflow like that. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 10:15 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | You do know that this will change between devices, and even browsers, right? HTML is dynamically rendered and displayed as opposed to a PDF which is a "print media on screen". | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 9:41 | history | asked | domotorp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |