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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Number of lines probably would be better. I was just curious because I remember authors was done as characters. I don't remember agreeing with kaufman about interpreting depending on the number entered. On my phone I have number of characters set to 5 and it doesn't do 5 lines. I hate when an app tries to figure out what I want because it usually gets it wrong. I would much rather specify what I want.
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The suggestion was to change to lines. The
post I was referring to is here, but I overstated the level of your agreement.
Making the change opens the question: what do I do with existing values? The referred-to discussion suggested that:
- the number be in lines
- the text in the options be changed to lines
- the number of lines be limited to 25
- if a number is encounted that is larger than 25 then it assumed to be legacy and is a number of characters.
TBH I don't feel a pressing need to change this. Leaving it as it is makes for less work for me and for the translators.
