format the breifing so it fits in the kneeboard

[jscharpf]

Is there any way to format the briefing so it fits in my kneeboard? I always have to scroll left or right to see it all. I can only make my kneeboard so big, it won't stretch more than some amount, and there are words to the right so I have to scroll right, read, scroll left, read, etc..

Can I shrink the fonts or format the document so it fits better?

Thanks!

Jeff

[Travis]

Hi Jeff!

Short answer - maybe.

I've been annoyed with the spacing too, but I've never thought to do anything about it. Lazy git, I guess I am....

I made a few tests today (with FSX and P3D2) and this might be possible. It could depend on the IE version that you have installed, so bear with us as we see what's possible.

We've just released FSCaptain version 1.7.4, and I want to make lots of tests with different possibilities here (I didn't realize until today that FSX supports Cascading Style Sheets!) but this is something that I want to engage with (on an optional basis of course... a smaller font is really rough on my old eyes.)

Thanks for the suggestion....

Regards,

[jscharpf]

Thanks Travis! Yes understand it's a double edge sword if you do this ... fit it all into one spot and now you can't read it lol!! I have old eyes too!
I was thinking that rather than re-size it, maybe just set the right margin shorter so that the lines wrap at xx characters.
This way everything can remain the same size.

[Travis]

We use 80 columns / characters for the Upper Level WX, and 73 characters for the Flight Plan display.

Most of the contents of the Dispatch Release are mono-spaced tables, so wrapping that data isn't an option.

Remarks, Flight Risks, and Runway data do fit the small kneeboard window at standard font sizes, but several areas have more data than the window normally allows....

By decreasing the HTML font size by one, I've seen the display accommodate all data except the upper-most level of Upper Level WX data.

The next public beta release will have an option to reduce the font size... but I've grown accustomed to scrolling when needed. (And most of the data that is necessary to review should be visible without scrolling....)

Regards,