Date:         Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:32:13 +0100
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From:         Roland <roland.rashleigh-berry@VIRGIN.NET>
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Subject:      12 pt font size and the FDA
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If you are writing tables and listings for pharmaceutical companies then
have you been hit yet with the FDA's insistence that the characters must
be 12 pt size? Since you have to leave margins such that these reports
can be bound then that limits the effective characters across the page.
Where I work they consider this limit to be 90 columns. I am already
rewriting some of my standard reports to cope with this. I find I am
having to stack the variables in one column rather that have them in
separate columns. Investigator number / subject number / age / sex /
race / weight / whatever now have to go in one column. I have a special
macro called "stackrep" that I posted here a long time back that can do
this.

Roland