Okay, would like to read it.<p>However, on my screen, called 14",
about 12.5" wide,
the text is about 100 characters
per line in about 7.5" for about
13.33 characters per inch horizontally.<p>Then with two pair of strong reading glasses
and my nose 5" from the screen, I can
barely read the text.<p>A shame because about half the width of the
screen is given over to just a table of
contents with mostly blank space.<p>Maybe if I had a video screen 4 feet wide?<p>More generally, yes, I know, there is a lot
of careful, sophisticated, deep work in
<i>user interface</i>, but for the OP pages
I'd like to see only about 60
characters per line and about
6 characters per inch horizontally.
About 8 characters per inch is
my upper limit.<p>Sure if my screen were twice as wide, then
I could get the present 13 characters
per inch down to 7.5, but these days
with laptops and tables, screens 25"
inches wide are not near the 'median'.<p>13 characters per inch I just can't read
without a lot of effort.<p>Generally, in Web screens, we are free to use
about all the length we want but should
be very careful about using up screen
width.<p>In my start-up, each screen is just
800 pixels wide with high contrast and
large fonts, about 25 pixels high on
lines 35 pixels high.<p>Here I'd like to encourage Web page
designers to use larger fonts, narrower
pages, and fewer characters per line.