undefined | Better HN

0 pointsDylan168076y ago0 comments

If you need more line spacing, then you can tell your browser to do that. Either a few minutes with userContent or an extension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/line-height-adjust...

And long lines are trivially helped by making the window less wide.

So you've provided a good demonstration about how vastly easier things are to adjust for someone that can see.

0 comments

mrep6y ago

The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it.

Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?

Dylan16807OP6y ago

> The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it.

Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

> Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?

No, but I don't think it would be hard to read if it was one paragraph. That formatting is to add in small pauses, not to make it easier to read when lines wrap.

Vinnl6y ago

> That formatting is to add in small pauses

But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?

1 more reply

acqq6y ago

> Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

Exactly. Not all we want and need to tell other people can be reduced to tweets. whoever has the windows maximised on a desktop has another option, and the paragraph was never a 140 character slogan.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsDylan168076y ago0 comments

If you need more line spacing, then you can tell your browser to do that. Either a few minutes with userContent or an extension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/line-height-adjust...

And long lines are trivially helped by making the window less wide.

So you've provided a good demonstration about how vastly easier things are to adjust for someone that can see.

0 comments

mrep6y ago

The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it.

Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?

Dylan16807OP6y ago

> The problem isn't line spacing whatsoever, it's tracing which one of the 10 lines you are reading from one side of a screen to another as your read it.

Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

> Did you make your comment 3 paragraphs ironically?

No, but I don't think it would be hard to read if it was one paragraph. That formatting is to add in small pauses, not to make it easier to read when lines wrap.

Vinnl6y ago

> That formatting is to add in small pauses

But... The lack of pauses is exactly what makes a tall paragraph hard to read?

1 more reply

acqq6y ago

> Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

Exactly. Not all we want and need to tell other people can be reduced to tweets. whoever has the windows maximised on a desktop has another option, and the paragraph was never a 140 character slogan.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse