Re:Write thin to write fast
by telotortium on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:19PM
(#29196006)
I found out that the author of this article wrote it
using a markup language called (confusingly) Scroll: https://scroll.pub/.
I'm not sure I want to bother learning another markup language
when there are many extensions to Markdown already,
but this author apparently favors the multi-column layout.
I find scrolling all the way to the bottom of a thin column to get old fast, however,
especially when the article is longer
than can fit into a single page.
It's pretty easy to constrain the height of the article text div element
to be slightly less than screen height
(using `height: 100vh`, or maybe slightly smaller if you have a header),
which makes the columns fit vertically within the screen
but causes more columns to appear off-screen to the right.
However, you can override PageUp and PageDown
to scroll left and right instead:
https://github.com/publicdomaincompany/scroll/issues/10#issu....
That's pretty satisfying if you like to read in thin columns -
almost like a poor man's PDF but completely in HTML.
I find scrolling all the way to the bottom of a thin column to get old fast, however, especially when the article is longer than can fit into a single page.
It's pretty easy to constrain the height of the article text div element to be slightly less than screen height (using `height: 100vh`, or maybe slightly smaller if you have a header), which makes the columns fit vertically within the screen but causes more columns to appear off-screen to the right. However, you can override PageUp and PageDown to scroll left and right instead: https://github.com/publicdomaincompany/scroll/issues/10#issu....
That's pretty satisfying if you like to read in thin columns - almost like a poor man's PDF but completely in HTML.