If the research has already been done, then there is no need for guessing
and further suggestions. All the better :-)

I thought that the em would actually be a unit to get something like x
characters in width, using M as the particular character as a basis.




Am Di., 19. Juli 2022 um 14:21 Uhr schrieb Marcel Taeumel <
marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:

> > 75em may also be a good limit, now that Number even understands such a
> selector.
>
> Nope. We need something independent from a scale factor and thus the
> default font size as pretty-printed format can be checked in. Better use
> "66 characters", not 75em. No rendering/font properties. For multi-line
> comments, use the line-break algorithm as in Text >> #withNoLineLongerThan:.
>
> Please read the commentary in
> TextStyle >> #compositionWidthForNumChars
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 14.07.2022 19:55:04 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>
>
> > On 2022-07-14, at 10:48 AM, Jakob Reschke wrote:
> >
> > 75em may also be a good limit, now that Number even understands such a
> selector.
> > https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
>
> That's an excellent point; extra-long lines are really annoying to read in
> general.
>
> >
> > But seeing Tim's examples: before we start tweaking the indentation of
> comments by the pretty printer, which would have it insert tabs or spaces
> or anything else, better implement that proposal to display comment lines
> left-aligned with the opening ", without requiring indentation characters
> in the source text. Remember that other thread about whether or not to have
> line breaks in comments? Somebody posted a screenshot from Dolphin
> Smalltalk that shows what I am referring to.
> >
> > To leave the comments untouched by the pretty-printer seems reasonable
> to me for now.
>
> Oh, I'm not wanting to have any tabs or spaces inserted - I want the
> formatting to be live and use the left indent. Shout does all that work to
> colour (etc) the text so why not use the fact that it detects comments.
>
>
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful random insult:- His seat back is not in the full upright and locked
> position.
>
>
>
>
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