[Blindtlk] How many words in a standard Braille page?

[Judy Jones]

One could use a 5-character word as an average.

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] How many words in a standard Braille page?


> The usual standard is about 1000 characters, 25 lines of 40 cells each. 
> How many words -- it depends...
>
> And depending on the paper, and the embosser, etc., in theory y0ou could 
> fit up to 27 lines of 42 characters -- you do the math.
>
> Dave
>
>  At 04:16 PM 12/5/2012, you wrote:
>>Daniel,
>>This is like asking, "how long is a piece of string". If you wrote single 
>>letter contractions then you would get many more contractions on a page 
>>than if you wrote 2 letter, or short form words etc. Also, it depends on 
>>what margins you use and how many lines you use. Perhaps what you are 
>>wanting to know is:
>>Using all possible lines and having the narrowest possible margins, how 
>>many braille characters will one standard braille page hold? 
>>Unfortunately, now I have posed the question for you, I do not have the 
>>answer. I'm sure someone will know though.
>>Warmly,
>>Heather
>>
>>-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Garcia
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 2:25 PM
>>To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>Subject: [Blindtlk] How many words in a standard Braille page?
>>
>>Hi Everyone:
>>
>>How many (contracted) Braille words can fit in an 11 inch by 11.5 inch
>>Braille page?
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>Daniel
>
>
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