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Originally Posted by ewormuth View Post
I'm completing an assignment for a course on indexing books. The criteria for the assignment say no more than 300 lines, with no more than 36 characters per line.
Whoever specified those criteria either has no idea about proportional fonts or they're expecting you to use a fixed-width font. They also seem to be disregarding differences in word length. Universities and the like typically specify assignment lengths in terms of word count, not the number of lines or characters per line.
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