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They go beyond the limit by displaying text in columns. Imagine how difficult it would be to read a broadsheet newspaper if the text ran from one edge of the pa
by Veen 6y ago
They go beyond the limit by displaying text in columns. Imagine how difficult it would be to read a broadsheet newspaper if the text ran from one edge of the page to the other. As lines get longer, it is increasingly difficult to find the starting point of the next line and reading speed and comprehension are reduced.
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- qayxc 6y agoJust for shits and giggles I grabbed a random book from the shelf and counted characters per column. The book I grabbed was "Spoken Language Processing", Huang Acero, Hon (ISBN 0-13-022616-5) and I counted 88 characters per line. The book is still very readable, despite exceeding the claimed 70-odd character limit for books/columns. Another book sitting next to it (a numerical mathematics textbook) had 82 characters per line. Granted, the limit of no more than 70 characters per line applies if whitespace and punctuation aren't counted, but that's never done with hard limits in digital documents either, so...