diff --git a/frontend/src/views/papers/PaperDetailView.vue b/frontend/src/views/papers/PaperDetailView.vue
index 9c88fb6..0b8ae2b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/papers/PaperDetailView.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/papers/PaperDetailView.vue
@@ -416,12 +416,18 @@ onMounted(load)
 }
 
 /* The writing surface: a sheet, not a table — the paper's own typography is
-   what the template describes, so the container stays out of the way. */
+   what the template describes, so the container stays out of the way.
+ *
+ * Full width, deliberately. A centred, capped text column reads well in a
+ * document viewer, but this page is also the editing surface: every paragraph
+ * carries its own heading and its edit button, and those belong on the panel's
+ * edges. Capped at 900px they floated in the middle of a wide screen with
+ * several hundred pixels of nothing on either side, which looks like a broken
+ * layout rather than a considered measure. */
 .sheet {
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: column;
-  max-width: 900px;
-  margin: 0 auto;
+  min-width: 0;
 }
 
 .references {