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  2. Line length - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length

    The measure is the number of characters per line in a column of text. Using CSS to set the width of a box to 66ch fixes the measure to about 66 characters per line regardless of the text size as the ch unit is defined as the width of the glyph 0 (zero, the Unicode character U+0030) in the element's font. [10]

  3. Word count - Wikipedia

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    Word count is commonly used by translators to determine the price of a translation job. Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing and reading speeds (usually in words per minute). When converting character counts to words, a measure of 5 or 6 characters to a word is generally used for English. [1]

  4. Characters per line - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_per_line

    Standard paper sizes, such as the international standard A4, also impose limitations on line length: using the US standard Letter paper size (8.5×11"), it is only possible to print a maximum of 85 or 102 characters (with the font size either 10 or 12 characters per inch) without margins on the typewriter. With various margins – usually from ...

  5. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    In typography, the pilcrow (¶) is a glyph used to identify a paragraph.In editorial production the pilcrow typographic character may also be known as the paragraph mark, the paragraph sign, the paragraph symbol, the paraph, and the blind P.

  6. Novella - Wikipedia

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    Dictionaries define novelette similarly to novella, sometimes identically, [24] sometimes with a disparaging sense of being trivial or sentimental. [25] Some literary awards have a longer "novella" and a shorter "novelette" category, with a distinction based on word count. Among awards, a range between 17,500 and 40,000 words is commonly used ...

  7. Wikipedia:Article size - Wikipedia

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    Wiki markup size: the amount of text in the full page edit window, as shown in the character count in the article's page history. Browser page size: the total size of the page as loaded by a web browser. The article size impacts usability in multiple ways:

  8. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [1] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.

  9. Wikipedia:Line breaks usage - Wikipedia

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    However, single line breaks in the source do have certain effects: Within a list, a single line break starts either the next item or a new paragraph; within an indentation (which, if marked up with leading colons, is really the definition part of a definition list), a single line break aborts the indentation and starts a new paragraph.