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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Line lengths (Re: UNIX needs a real text editor)
Message-ID: <474@talos.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 14:02:46 GMT
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Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
>   - LONG AND SHORT LINES (outside of something like [20, 80]) are more
>     difficult to read... [50-60 is best]

Peter da Silva) writes:
>This probably depends on the format of the text, character size, and columns.
>Newspapers seem to do just fine with ~20 characters per line.

Newspapers do what they have to do pile as much stuff on a page as
they can.  Text layout suffers as a result.  Too narrow columns,
w i d e   s  p  a   c   i  n  g, irregular vertical spacing and so on.
But you can't expect the world for 25 cents.