Original: Braille characters are much larger than their printed equivalents, and the standard 11" by 11.5" (28 cm &times; 30 cm) page has room for only 25 lines of 43 characters.
Simplified: Braille characters are much larger than their printed equivalents, and the standard 11" by 11" (28 cm &times; 28 cm) page has room for only 25 lines of 40 characters.