Re: [Pan-users] Howto unwrap text in body pane to available space

[ashwin]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 09:36:32 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> ashwin kesavan posted on Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:20:37 +0530 as excerpted:
> 
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> Pan has a togglable wrap option, but depending on the original post
> format, I'm not sure it'll do what you want.
> 
> In one mode, pan doesn't wrap at all, presenting the text as it was
> posted.  That means if it was posted with hard-wrap at 80 characters,
> that's what pan will show.  If it was posted with 1000 character long
> lines, that's what pan will show in this mode too, and you'll have to do
> a lot of horizontal scrolling unless you have pan's body pane spread
> across multiple terminals so it's wide enough to show 1000 character
> lines without scrolling.
> 
> This unwrapped mode is best for displaying mono-space formatted
> ASCII-art, tables with aligned columns, etc, and sometimes is needed to
> align these properly even in posts that need wrapped for ordinary prose.
> 
> In the other mode, pan does its own rewrapping to the standard just
> under 80 characters, regardless of what the original post was wrapped
> at.  This is best for ordinary prose where rewrapping doesn't change the
> semantic content.
> 
> But there's no mode that wraps to the arbitrary window width regardless
> of whether that's 20 or 220 characters, and I think that's what you're
> asking for.

Yes , thats correct. Thats what i was looking for. 

> 
> What I've found, however, is that for large wide windows, multi-pane
> layout with the body pane beside the group pane so neither one is full
> width, with a full-width header pane to best display all possible
> columns with the subject and author columns both quite wide to better
> display longer names, seems to work best.
> 
> ASCII-art of my layout:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> | s a subject                  author   date bytes lines score |
> |--------------------------------------------------------------|
> | o x header pane              duncan   now  xx    yy    --    |
> |                                                              |
> |                                                              |
> |                                                              |
> |                                                              |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> | body pane                         | group pane               |
> |                                   |                          |
> |                                   |                          |
> |                                   |                          |
> |                                   |                          |
> |                                   |                          |
> |                                   |                          |
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Of course the header pane could be below or the group pane to the left,
> if it fits your style better...
> 
> The body pane is set to ~90 character width, so wrapped text doesn't
> look too out of place.  The group pane can have the abbreviated group
> names option turned on or off depending on how long your subscribed
> group names actually are, and how much space you have left to display it
> beside the body pane.  The header pane is full width, thus allowing
> longer than average subject lines to display fully or nearly fully,
> without crimping the author column too much or forcing omission of some
> of the less important columns.

I like this layout better than other layout i was using (the default 
one). The layout you mentioned is so much better. But i still feel that 
text that wraps around the window length would be better. Thank you for 
the support.

> 
> A screen shot (note that I run triple stacked full-HD monitors, so it's
> pretty big, 3240x1960, also, moderate possibly NSFW warning due to
> swimsuit model firefox skin) can be found at:
> 
> http://wstaw.org/m/2013/05/11/duncan-fullscreen.png
> 
> Pan is of course on the middle monitor, there.
> 
> (The top monitor is 21", the two bottom monitors are actually 42" TVs,
> thus the far larger fonts in the superkaramba system monitoring theme on
> the top one.)

with regards,
ashwin