Single or Double columns?

[FierceKitty]

I initially thought you meant marching formations.

[Orcs]

Single columns for me please.  Makes it much easier to read.

[slugbalancer]

Single for me.

[Orcs]

In the early days of computing, before it was called IT there was an allied discipline called Desk Top Publishing.

I used to teach DTP using a number of programs but the most popular one was called Pagemaker. One of its selling points was the ability to turn a string of text into a variety of formats, single column, double column, triple column (I kid you not), single spaced, space and a half, double spaced, justified, justified and filled. It lead to a number of incredibly bad documents being produced.

I would be happy with single column, justified and filled.

You will be telling us it was on a 386SX next

[Ithoriel]

You will be telling us it was on a 386SX next

THREE eight six! Ooh! look at you with your fancy-smancy cutting edge processors!

286 processor was good enough for my first PC. Came with Windows 3.0 pre-installed.

[Wulf]

THREE eight six! Ooh! look at you with your fancy-smancy cutting edge processors!

286 processor was good enough for my first PC. Came with Windows 3.0 pre-installed.

Windows?

Oh, another newbie... 

I prefer double so long as the columns are wide enough - depends on the font.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Double saves some space. You do need to put table heading at the top of each page as well. Makes the tables easier to read. 

IanS

[Ithoriel]

Windows?

Oh, another newbie... 

I prefer double so long as the columns are wide enough - depends on the font.

"... first PC ..."

First computer I used was an IBM 360 :-)

Data prep sheets, punch cards, acoustic couplers .... ahh, the good old days!

[fsn]

DEC PDP 11/44 then a VAX

First desktop I used had no hard drive, but two 5" floppy drives. You swapped disks like mad when doing simple things like spell checking.

[jimduncanuk]

"... first PC ..."

First computer I used was an IBM 360 :-)

Data prep sheets, punch cards, acoustic couplers .... ahh, the good old days!

Can beat you both there:

First computer I worked on was an English Electric Leo Marconi KDF9, 16k of core memory, no operating system, four 1" magnetic tape drives, line printer, 80 column card reader, two paper tape readers, paper tape punch, a graph plotter and a electro-mechanical typewriter for a console. Circa 1968.

The system filled a pretty big air conditioned room and the air conditioning plant next door was even bigger.

Staff communications inside the machine room was largely by hand signals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_KDF9

[jimduncanuk]

You will be telling us it was on a 386SX next

Nope it wasn't. I predate these machines by at least 10 years.

[OldenBUA]

I think I would prefer single column.

You do need to put table heading at the top of each page as well. Makes the tables easier to read. 

This is a good idea. The tables with all the unit data would benefit from having the table header repeated on each page.

[Leon]

Double saves some space. You do need to put table heading at the top of each page as well. Makes the tables easier to read. 

This is a good idea. The tables with all the unit data would benefit from having the table header repeated on each page.

Just to be clear, what do you mean exactly by table header?  Just the title for that particular table, or something else?

[Itinerant Hobbyist]

Single is winning, but I vote double.

Doesn't matter I'm buying them either way.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

At the monment the columns in the "army lists" only have the header - ie what that column is - at the start of the list. They can cover 2-3 pages in some armies. BKC isn't too bad, but CWC is. This needs to be repeated at the head of each page at least.

IanS