On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 16:45, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2020 12:28:47 +0100, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>Ah, ok.  Although I've no idea how to translate to 128k into a word count
>as I'm betting pasting it into Word and looking at the file size will be of
>no help whatsoever.  (And my email neither gives me a word count or a
>kilobyte count).

Pasting into Notepad

ah, good thought, I should try that.

and saving will get you a KB count (file size in
Windows Explorer/File Explorer), but in general, figure that 1KB of plain
(raw/unformatted) text is about 100-200 words.

100-200 words?!  Nice and vague.

OK, so my 10,000 words (a tiny bit over actually) should easily come in under the limit (of 125k) at the lower end of that range but will be well over at the top end.  I should stop using such long words... ;-)  Or weighty metaphors.

Hang on, before I click send, I could try it.  Cutting and pasting TTA XXIV from TML:

Notepad as .txt - 60k - but I've lost all italics and the small amount of bold

So let's try from Word as .rtf - 104k.

So, still under the limit.  Which suggests this won't help me much!

As I say, I won't sweat it.  If Bruce is happy to vet them, it's not like they are *that* time dependent they have to be posted *immediately*.  Who's still half way through the last one? :-)

tc

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