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The textbox we use for editing letters is the same size as that for email and text messages. This is problematic because: - it feels quite cramped – letters will often be longer than emails or text messages - it has a narrower line length than the printed letters (which is a constant, unlike for emails and text messages) The printed letters have a line length of 137.5mm and a font size of 12.5pt. 137.5mm = 5.41 inches = 389.7pt line length 389.7pt/12.5pt = 31.8em So we could make the box 31.8em wide, but then it wouldn’t align to our grid. Our grid splits the page into quarters initially because this is how wide the navigation is. So this means that we can use grid units of 1/multiples of four, eg 1/4, 1/8, 1/12, 1/16, etc. But the smaller the denominator, the less effective the grid will be – it gets closer to no grid at all. After having a play around, 5/8 of the page looks closest to 31.8em. Since the main column of the page is 3/4, we set a column of 5/6 width inside that, which equals 5/8 of the total page.