Re: Cross-language "same content on same page" issues?

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Point size changes only buy you so much wiggle room in
refitting translations back into a page format. You
might save 20% or 40% in space by adjusting point size
and line spacing, but the number of characters grows,
hyphenation rules change, and so on.

Never design a perfect source copy (that is,
everything looks "just so" per page), because if you
do, you'll find yourself squeezing translations back
in, resulting in a look that's "just not so".

--- Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> wrote:
> This is inaccurate if you also adjust the line
> spacing (as you should 
> do). In that case, you can fit about 44% more on the
> page when you 
> change from 12pt to 10pt.
> 
> In other words, changing the text size from 12pt to
> 11pt may be enough 
> to fit 20% more text on the page.

=====
Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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