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Comment by jfasi | Hacker News Reader

If you're as turned off by the formatting of this page as I am, I'm currently working on a CSS framework to beautifully display longform text.

As luck would have it, this essay was my test case:

I was surprised to read this comment because the post links... to your page. What was the original link?

You need left margin or left padding. It's really awkward without it. Also max-width on the content please.

edit: Thanks for the update. Looks really nice.

On Chrome you can use an extension like iReader to format it nicely:

Yours does look a little nicer, though. You should make it an extension.

This looks great, thanks!

it looks really nice! is there a way to see the source code on github or similar?

Lovely.

This is gorgeous.

Wow, amazing! :)

..and you somehow forget the most important feature, bar none:

    p { max-width: 30em; }

What browser are you using? I believe I implemented the max-width using a container div rather than putting restrictions on the p elements.