Publication-based Pīnyīn Plus Web Material Now Has Maximum Line Lengths for Better Readability
The website Butterick’s Practical Typography points out the following:
Shorter lines are more comfortable to read than longer lines. As line length increases, your eye has to travel farther from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, making it harder to track your progress vertically.
The iBooks iOS app already applies the above principle when rendering EPUB files, and now the existing publication-based Pīnyīn Plus web material applies the above principle as well. Whereas it previously would allow lines of text to be as long as their displaying window’s margins allowed, now, to preserve readability, lines of text will only grow in length up to a predetermined maximum, even if the window’s size would previously have allowed for longer line lengths.
This new behaviour can currently be seen in action in the following resources, especially as text sizes and/or device orientations get changed:
- Good News Br.
(Pīnyīn Plus, Scriptures, Web)
(2016-03 Printing, proofread, mobile-friendly,
flashcards integrated with the text,
context-appropriate English translations
with literal & effective meanings,
Simplified & Traditional characters,
📖 Reveal All, 📄 Reveal Advanced,
and 📘 Reveal None controls for
all the “flashcards” in a lesson, paragraph, etc.,
links for getting around,
picture links, audio links, video link,
Night Theme that can be turned on or off
using the ☀️/🌙 button at the top right,
adjustable text size)
(Info re offline viewing and printing) - Short Links:
Links ▶ Publications ▶ Brochures ▶
Good News Brochure Links (tiandi.info/fg) - NWT Bible (Pīnyīn Plus, Web)
(2007 Printing, proofread, mobile-friendly, unofficial,
incomplete but with many often-used scriptures,
flashcards integrated with the text,
context-appropriate English translations
with literal & effective meanings,
Simplified & Traditional characters,
📖 Reveal All, 📄 Reveal Advanced, and
📘 Reveal None controls
for all the “flashcards” in a chapter, paragraph, etc.,
extensive links for getting around, audio links,
Night Theme that can be turned on or off
using the ☀️/🌙 button at the top right,
adjustable text size)
(Info re offline viewing and printing) - Short Links:
Links ▶ Publications ▶
New World Translation Bible Links (tiandi.info/bi)
