After upgrading my desktop installation from 1.7.11 (prod, linux) to 2.4.9 on Ubuntu , the width of the left margin in the editor increased dramatically. The programmer's intention seems to be to attempt to roughly center the text in the edit pane, but I find this to be problematic when I am typing…

[image] Please read this if you are wondering why there's now a margin on the note text News The latest version of Joplin sets a maximum width for the note content in order to improve readability . You can disable this by going into Configuration > Appearance and set the w…

Thanks for the tip! Setting to 0 resolved the problem. I get the idea of preventing text from wrapping by setting a text width, but not why such a setting should affect the left margin, nor why the default value for a new feature should be something that alters the appearance.

It isn't the left margin as such rather it is centred in the panel. There has already been a lot of constructive critisism about the feature and the way it was implemented in the weeks since its appearance along with the change in syntax highlighting so it might be worth having a look at those first …

Yes I'm still not sure what's best for this feature. Centering by default seems reasonable since that's what many editors do, like Bear or Typora, but for Joplin somehow it seems unexpected for many users. Perhaps left align by default would be better?

For what it's worth, and as a paying customer, I vote left (i.e. max width default = 0) ...if for no other reason than this default value for this new config parameter does not change the application's behavior unexpectedly upon upgrading.

I think my answer is that it depends (helpful, I know). Lots of this is simply rehashed from this topic but with some elaboration. On the topic of the feature itself: When I use something like Typora or Mark Text I tend to have the application as a floating window so the width of the window tends…

Well, I am a new Joplin user since last week and I've spent already a couple of hours trying to remove center note justification on my big screen. Max width at the same time is a great feature that I would like to leave on. Clearly there must be a way to fix alignment using userstyle.css or userchr…

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Great, it worked! Now I have a solution, posted in this thread: [image] Left align note preview & editor using css [solved] Features Introduction of Editor maximum width setting (which is great) added a problem with center justified notes (which is not great, imho). With …

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Great, it worked! Now I have a solution, posted in this thread:

Topic		Replies	Views
Please read this if you are wondering why there's now a margin on the note text News	19	8182	30 March 2022
Center note text or left align by default? Development	13	4199	17 August 2022
How to align notes to the left of the editor Support	3	1301	23 August 2021
Max text width for Markdown editor pane Support	1	1471	15 September 2021
Editor now displays only 80 character per line with large margins Support	1	938	12 October 2021

Editor Appearance Problem

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