What does keystrokes per line mean?
What does keystrokes per line mean?
The standard page is a kind of benchmark to better estimate the amount of work or scope of a manuscript. When completely filled, a standard page has 1800 keystrokes, i.e. 1800 characters including spaces.
How long is a line?
Very long lines have a deterrent effect and make it difficult to jump back to the beginning of the following line. Very short lines, on the other hand, lead to frequent line breaks and word breaks. Depending on the type of text, line lengths between at least 35 and at most 80 characters are recommended (incl.
How many words can you translate in an hour?
The translation of a very specific and terminologically compact specialist text takes much more time than an ordinary text. A professional translator can translate around 250 to 350 words per hour, so it takes around 7 to 10 hours to translate 2500 words.
How long does a translation take?
Depending on the level of difficulty of a text, experience has shown that a loosely written page with 250 words or 1,650 keystrokes* can be translated within an hour. Calculated on an 8-hour working day, this results in 8-12 standard pages.
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