From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com   
      
   On 2015-10-20 03:27:00 +0000, William Vetter said:   
      
   > Jymesion wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:03:35 -0400, William Vetter   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Jymesion wrote:   
   >>>> The old:   
   >>>> characters in an average line x number of lines per page x number of   
   >>>> pages / 6 gives them a much better idea of how much space the story   
   >>>> will take.   
   >>>   
   >>> How I do this in MS Word:   
   >>> 1) Make sure page width is 8.5" in Page Setup   
   >>> 2) Set font Courier New 12 or a similar 12pt not proportional-spaced font   
   >>> 3) Take the number of lines from Word Count   
   >>> 4) Multiply this number by 10.3   
   >>>   
   >>> This is the same as the ancient method of doing it with a ruler.   
   >>   
   >> The only ways I can see that it differs is you're assuming each line   
   >> is full rather than counting an average line (not a big deal), and it   
   >> misses the empty 1/2 page or so at the end of each chapter (again, not   
   >> a big deal).   
   >>   
   >> One reason I never took to Word is that every version I tried wouldn't   
   >> always put the same number of lines on a page. Rather than a strict   
   >> 25, it varied from 24 to 27, which screwed up my word count.   
   >   
   > That is the default behavior.  It wants to never have a paragraph cross   
   > a page such that to have the last line of a paragraph at the top of the   
   > next page.  If you turn off widow/orphan control, it won't do that.   
      
   And it applies to most word processors -- OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Pages....   
      
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