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Line length

In typography, line length is the width of a line of type, a block of typeset text. It is usually expressed in units of length, like inches or points. Line length is related to the line measure, expressed in characters per line.. A block of text or paragraph has a maximum line length that fits a determined design. If the lines are too short then the text…

Measurement, Printed text & Electronic text

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Printed text

ColumnsBibliographiesFootnotesPunctuationHang
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Electronic text

CSSGlyphTypographic emSaccadeCharacters
5 related topics

Calculation methods

Adjacency matrixX axisY axisRule of three
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Overview

TypographyTypesetTextUnits of lengthInches
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Line length

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples30
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

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Line length

Top relations

related to Printed text · 12
Line length → Early, English-language, For, Generally, Longer, Punctuation, Reverse, Short, Studies, Texts, The, Traditional
has method · 6
Line length → If, LCA, Most, Once, The, There
related to Electronic text · 6
Line length → For, Screen, The, Unicode, Unlike, Using CSS
is a · 1
Line length → width of a line of type

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Important terminology

line text characters length lines number cpl lca per ragged measure short right justified printed methods 45 digital used one

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Line lengthis awidth of a line of type0.90text
in bibliographies or footnotesinstance ofmay be acceptable for discontinuous text0.80text
but for continuous text lines with more than 80 characters may be too longinstance ofmay be acceptable for discontinuous text0.80text
glareinstance ofwriting for digital media must accommodate factors0.80text
flickerinstance ofwriting for digital media must accommodate factors0.80text
and scrolling/paging.The measure is the number of characters per line in a column of textinstance ofwriting for digital media must accommodate factors0.80text
Line lengthhas methodThere0.60section
Line lengthhas methodMost0.60section
Line lengthhas methodLCA0.60section
Line lengthhas methodThe0.60section
Line lengthhas methodIf0.60section
Line lengthhas methodOnce0.60section

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