01-29-2021, 01:41 AM
Just tossing this out for discussion - not a critic of a story - but of the construction or formatting of the sentencing/text.
When reading some of these stories on a wide screen monitor (like my 27 inch) I find an increasing amount of overrun off screen.
I don't know how someone reads these things on a tablet or even a cell phone (when distracted driving I might add LOL ) !
If the story text is not double spaced it is hard for me (I am 79 with glasses) to wrap my vision around to the next line.
Example:
When the moon comes over the mountain - the darken sky lightens a degree or two creating romantic beams of twilight to embrace - yet again furthering the love making that the couple in this story have come to represent. Continuing in this quest feverish passions are exposed and despite the cool air warm embraces are bought out in full enlightenment of the love between these two. Then a shot rang out - Snoopy left the roof of his dog house to investigate finding Peter Rabbit about to be road kill for hovering buzzards above. Who the hell concocts a story and line like this - ME said the author to make a point on how the sentencing text is presented and spaced out to fit. Â
So redoing to a different format - - -
When the moon comes over the mountain - the darken sky lightens a degree or two creating romantic beams of twilight to embrace.
Yet again furthering the love making that the couple in this story have come to represent.
Continuing in this quest feverish passions are exposed and despite the cool air warm embraces are brought out in full enlightenment
of the love between these two.
Then a shot rang out - Snoopy left the roof of his dog house to investigate finding Peter Rabbit about to be road kill for the hovering buzzards above.
Who the hell concocts a story and line like this - ME said the author to make a point on how sentencing text is presented and spaced out to fit.
For me that makes things easier to read (and I would suppose others too).
Another thing when I took typing (back in '58) you only had the width of the 8.5 x 11 inch paper stock to type a line at a time.
With the typewriter with only one font and xx characters of text before having to CARET (carriage return) and start a new line.
What you were typing copying was presented in uniform space and more eye appealing.
None of the wrapping around the right margin and then some and even then some again !
Does this have any merit -or- am I just some ole fogy in need of wide-screen stereo-scope glasses ?
Frequently I will take a story posted here and di-bi sect it to reading as if I was it were only those xx
characters wide on a page - and then watch me speed read !Â
I would imagine that tablet users (in landscape mode) would like this too - but as for the cell phones -
forget it keep your eyes on the road !
Here comes those men in the white coats and shepherds crook to yank me off my soap box !
So long farewell - maybe like Arnold I will be back !
When reading some of these stories on a wide screen monitor (like my 27 inch) I find an increasing amount of overrun off screen.
I don't know how someone reads these things on a tablet or even a cell phone (when distracted driving I might add LOL ) !
If the story text is not double spaced it is hard for me (I am 79 with glasses) to wrap my vision around to the next line.
Example:
When the moon comes over the mountain - the darken sky lightens a degree or two creating romantic beams of twilight to embrace - yet again furthering the love making that the couple in this story have come to represent. Continuing in this quest feverish passions are exposed and despite the cool air warm embraces are bought out in full enlightenment of the love between these two. Then a shot rang out - Snoopy left the roof of his dog house to investigate finding Peter Rabbit about to be road kill for hovering buzzards above. Who the hell concocts a story and line like this - ME said the author to make a point on how the sentencing text is presented and spaced out to fit. Â
So redoing to a different format - - -
When the moon comes over the mountain - the darken sky lightens a degree or two creating romantic beams of twilight to embrace.
Yet again furthering the love making that the couple in this story have come to represent.
Continuing in this quest feverish passions are exposed and despite the cool air warm embraces are brought out in full enlightenment
of the love between these two.
Then a shot rang out - Snoopy left the roof of his dog house to investigate finding Peter Rabbit about to be road kill for the hovering buzzards above.
Who the hell concocts a story and line like this - ME said the author to make a point on how sentencing text is presented and spaced out to fit.
For me that makes things easier to read (and I would suppose others too).
Another thing when I took typing (back in '58) you only had the width of the 8.5 x 11 inch paper stock to type a line at a time.
With the typewriter with only one font and xx characters of text before having to CARET (carriage return) and start a new line.
What you were typing copying was presented in uniform space and more eye appealing.
None of the wrapping around the right margin and then some and even then some again !
Does this have any merit -or- am I just some ole fogy in need of wide-screen stereo-scope glasses ?
Frequently I will take a story posted here and di-bi sect it to reading as if I was it were only those xx
characters wide on a page - and then watch me speed read !Â
I would imagine that tablet users (in landscape mode) would like this too - but as for the cell phones -
forget it keep your eyes on the road !
Here comes those men in the white coats and shepherds crook to yank me off my soap box !
So long farewell - maybe like Arnold I will be back !