Was reminded by @m2m that I can make CSS for my site explicitly for printers to display.
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Was reminded by @m2m that I can make CSS for my site explicitly for printers to display.
So I did that for my fiction writing site. Remove the headers and footers, colored backgrounds, etc. Pretty quick work except Firefox is a bit hinky.
Still, miles ahead where it was yesterday. If you want to print out my stuff straight from the browser, it will now be not awful.
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@troublewithwords @m2m crank up the side margins as well! Folks always forget that and you get crazy long line lengths.
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@octothorpe @m2m Good idea. I spent an hour trying to connect to my printer to see how it looks at 1:1 and failed, so it'll have to do for now. I suspect the type is awkwardly large so there won't be too many words on a line, just not enough words on a page.
Some day I'm feeling fancy I might make a landscape style that does two columns, but not today.
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@troublewithwords @m2m usually what I do is make the ‘article container’ (ie, main body) have a width in ‘ch’, where that’s between 55-70 (aka ideal line length) depending on what feels right. I also explicitly use pt to describe printed text, as I know what that’s going to look like vs some weird px conversion.
If you make the container a specific width in CH, you’ll not have to worry about padding, and you can set the margin to auto to centre it on the page.
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@troublewithwords @m2m also FWIW, I’m old and going blind so 12-14pt for body text is fine. A lot of print material is between 8-10, depending on the x-height of the font.