size conversion question

[pepstreebeck]

Hello All.

I've been working on few stories and I'm trying to find out how many it will be the site, Vs How Many Pages It Will Be On The site, And How Pages it Will Be On The Mobile App? My Longest Is Currently 30 Pages In MS word And I Figure I'll Need To turn This Into Multiple Chapters.

Sorry About The Caps, Phone Seems To Be retarded Following Last Update :/.

Thanks

 

[mynameisben]

A good rule of thumb is 5 to 6 MS Word pages per Literotica page. It varies according to the font size and margins you use in Word, of course.

 

[pepstreebeck]

awesome, Exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

 

[annanova]

Using Word's standard margins and 11pt. Calibri, I get approximately eight Word pages to one Lit page.

Like Ben indicated, font and margins make a difference.

 

[PennLady]

Roughly, there are 3400 or so words on a Lit screen page. So it's easier to go by word count. it also depends on how you have your font, etc., set up on your word processor. I know with me, approx three Word pages equals one Lit page, give or take.

 

[TxRad]

Lit to Word is size 12 font with 1.25" margins all around.

Roughly 6 Word pages to one Lit.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

About eight 'Pages' pages, for any MAC users out there.

I fucking love 'Pages', I think it's my favorite word processor. It assumes that you can walk and breathe and capitalize your own sentences.

And best of all? It doesn't have those fucking green squiggly lines.

 

[sr71plt]

"Page" isn't a good measurement, because pages can vary significantly. Do it by wordage. My stories at Lit. go close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

 

[slyc_willie]

"Page" isn't a good measurement, because pages can vary significantly. Do it by wordage. My stories at Lit. go close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

Sounds about right. But I remember that I did a comparison of word processing page size to Lit page size, formatted in 12-point Verdana. I get about six and a half pages to a single Lit page that way. But that is a rough estimate.

 

[MatthewVett]

I was expecting a different question when I read the thread title...

 

[TxRad]

I was expecting a different question when I read the thread title...

You dirty minded smut writer, you.

 

[Handley_Page]

What size page have you?.
I just realised mine are A4 not foolscap.
I get about 1800 words to a lit page.

 

[sr71plt]

Only 1,800 words? No way. Unless, of course, you write very, very long words and very, very short paragraphs. (Think you might want to recount.)

 

[Weird Harold]

"Page" isn't a good measurement, because pages can vary significantly. Do it by wordage. My stories at Lit. go close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

I averaged 100 Lit pages, selected from multi-page stories to ensure a full Lit page, and they average 3,767, +/- about 400 words--as counted by MS Word 97.

The actual page break is determined by a character count--including spaces and invisible HTML tags--of somewhere around 14KB as modified by orphan controls and the nearest paragraph break.

It has been a decade or more since I did the study, but Lit's basic format--and goal of a 25KB page once ads and HTML overhead is added to the story--hasn't changed.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I was expecting a different question when I read the thread title...

That one's too easy. Everything converts to somewhere between nine and twelve inches.

 

[glynndah]

That one's too easy. Everything converts to somewhere between nine and twelve inches.

Unless it's girlies. Then it's 36DDD or thereabouts.