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On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:18:17 +0100, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> declaimed the
following:

>(But I think 80 columns is a bit limited. Maybe 100 or 132.)

	Common topography practice was 2-2.5 alphabets for column width -- or
52-65 characters... On an old 10pitch typewriter, that meant a 6.5" type
line and 1" margins on 8.5" paper. And still falls 15 characters short of
the old Hollerith card (though many languages used to use the last 8 places
for sequence numbering, hence the 72 character per line practice)

	Properly sized, one can take in the entire line with minimal eye motion
(which is one of the points of speed reading classes -- you take in the
entire line without scanning left to right and back..).
-- 
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