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From: "Tom Bampton" <moley@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: ascii question
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:57:07 -0000
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<rearranged due to top posting>

"Dany" <dany.larouche@videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:jywD9.13341$NB6.234957@weber.videotron.net...
> "Tom Bampton" <moley@yahoo.com> a �crit dans le message news:
> arm0kn$t6$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk...
> >
> > "Dany" <dany.larouche@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> > news:PlvD9.12396$NB6.229302@weber.videotron.net...
> > >
> > > how many caracter of weight a 8 1/2 per 11 inch. pages
> > > can contain in a single line????
> > What do you mean ? If you mean "how many characters per line in a 8.5x11
> page"
> > then the answer depends entirely on the font, the point size for that
> font, and
> > on
> > the margins set when you print. Please be more specific, then somebody can
> help.
>
>
> Arial 12 points, and to be printed in a .txt file.....
> and that files will be printed on a 8 1/2 per 11 inch.

Hm, if you are intending to print ASCII Art, then Arial won't work as it's not
proportional. It's hard to say.

The best thing to try is this:

In a word processor (if you're on Windows, you could also try WordPad or Notepad
if you don't have a word processor) write lines consisting entirely of the
letter A, e.g.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAA

hold it down till you have a few lines on the screen. Then go to File, Print
Preview (assuming Windows still) and count how many there are. That will take
care of issues such as margins and give you a better idea then me just guessing
(I'm in the UK, we use A4 not 8.5x11)

If it is ASCII Art you're planning on printing, your best bet for a font will be
Lucida Console 10 point or Courier 10 point. Play around with Print Preview till
you're happy with how it will look, then you don't waste paper.

Sorry I couldnt be more specific.

Regards,

Tom.