Are line breaks counted in factbooks?

[The Finntopian Empire]

I want to make my factbook readable, but I am very tight on space, so don't want to add unnecessary empty space. Are line breaks counted?

[The Finntopian Empire]

/bump

[Tinhampton]

Where is "your factbook?" Just telling us that you need help with reducing the character count, but in two slightly-different ways, is not going to help anyone.

[The Finntopian Empire]

Where is "your factbook?" Just telling us that you need help with reducing the character count, but in two slightly-different ways, is not going to help anyone.

Sorry, it's https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the ... ok/id=main
I don't need help reducing the character count. I just want to know if line breaks

Like this, are counted

[Racoda]

It might be easier - and better - to just split it into different factbooks. An example of that: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=66040 (Government and Politics has a summary and links to another factbook).

There's also Ponderosa's guide to writing wiki-style factbooks (which is where I got the example from).

[Tinhampton]

It might be easier - and better - to just split it into different factbooks...

IMO I'd just move the sections about genetic engineering, time machines and climate change into a new factbook and add line breaks (and more information!) to the rest of the main factbook; those three subjects don't appear to have any obvious, direct relevance to The Finntopian Empire as an IC entity.

For instance, in the climate change section, you refer to the UK's carbon dioxide emissions OOCly. But in the Differences in Geography section, which is part of your IC canon, you say that England is under Irish rule and Cornwall, Sussex, Wales and Scotland are all independent countries. This will no doubt cause confusion among (very careful) readers.

[The Finntopian Empire]

It's less about just shortening it, I'm probably going to split it into different factbooks and do a bunch of stuff with it, but what I'm trying to find out is if line breaks count to the overall character amount, and if it would make me closer to the character limit

[[violet]]

I think everything is counted, if you're talking about the situation where you get a database error.

[The Finntopian Empire]

I think everything is counted, if you're talking about the situation where you get a database error.

so like is a line break counted as 1 character?

[Chingis]

After some testing, I would theorize that

A) Linebreaks are counted towards the 'too much data' error.
B) Linebreaks 'weigh' more than one character. The very rough test that I tried showed that adding a linebreak required removing around 3-4 characters to compensate. I'm not 100% sure about how constant this figure is, however - I only tested it out once, on a large block of continuous characters followed by one linebreak and a single character.

[The Finntopian Empire]

After some testing, I would theorize that

A) Linebreaks are counted towards the 'too much data' error.
B) Linebreaks 'weigh' more than one character. The very rough test that I tried showed that adding a linebreak required removing around 3-4 characters to compensate. I'm not 100% sure about how constant this figure is, however - I only tested it out once, on a large block of continuous characters followed by one linebreak and a single character.

Okay, thank you very much

[Refuge Isle]

After some testing, I would theorize that
B) Linebreaks 'weigh' more than one character. The very rough test that I tried showed that adding a linebreak required removing around 3-4 characters to compensate.

More than likely the data is literally <br> and the limit counts against html

[[violet]]

The exact number of characters depends on the character encoding of the source and the database table.

[The Finntopian Empire]

Thank you very much this has all been very useful