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Re: 2015 HINT DISCUSSION

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Originally Posted by indubitably View Post
While 65 pages is a big departure from the 111 pages it had last year, I think most of the reduction will be due to formatting. The 2014 admin manual was 78 pages with 26,407 words and the 2015 admin manual is only 51 pages with 23,950 words. So 35% percent reduction in page size with only a 10% reduction in words.

Here is a quick comparison picture (new manual is on the left):
So all this excitement over a shorter game manual sums up to using a smaller font and less paragraph spacing ... and just when it was getting good
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