> > A reason not mentioned much is that some people have trouble following > packed lines that are too much longer. Wide-page textbooks routinely put > text in two columns for easier reading. This is less of a factor with jagged > edge text, but if the limit were increased to say 150, there would be people > writing multi-line 150 char wide text blocks. >
You're right. From Lshort (the introduction to Latex): "On average, no line should be longer than 66 characters." This applies to regular text, not for code per see, but it makes a strong case against (very) long lines. Almar
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