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byfield -at- direct -dot- ca opines:
>>Isn't there a different "maximum width" according to the font used (i.e.
>>shorter lines with SansSerif fonts), and to the font size?
>An alternate practice I've heard is that no line should be longer about 52
>characters and spaces long, regardless of font size.
Jeez, and I'd always heard the rule was 1.5 times the length of the lowercase
alphabet.
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