ideal sentence length (was annoying...)

by "Lois Wakeman" <lois(at)lois.co.uk>

 Date:  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:42:27 +0100
 To:  "HWG techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
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Lauren

Another measure I have seen is two and half alphabets = 60 characters.

Not sure if the problem with scanning is the length of eye travel, or the
amount of info in it, so both measures may be good for different purposes.

Note for metric readers: 4" equals about 10 cms! <G>

Kind regards,

Lois Wakeman

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