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akrennmair / newsbeuter

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
http://www.newsbeuter.org/
MIT License
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Better text legibility thanks to margins #496

Open smyru opened 7 years ago

smyru commented 7 years ago

Newsbeuter version (copy from newsbeuter -v): newsbeuter 2.7

Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Open a feed with long article bodies (http://www.osnews.com/files/recent.xml has a good sample: http://osnews.com/story/29649/The_curious_case_of_NextStep_on_AIX)

The UX of the reader would be much better, if article view would add left margin to the body of text. Currently the text is justified to the edge of terminal. Compare man (ie. man tcpdump) formatting as a good example of on screen legible typesetting.

Minoru commented 7 years ago

Good point; thanks!

It's interesting that man actually outsets the headings, making better use of what limited formatting is available on the text console.

smyru commented 7 years ago

Indeed headers contribute to the overall man legibility. Anyway having a left margin - maybe even configurable as for size but that's a separate wish item - would greatly improve viewer feeling.