Costing by the column-inch

From: Mark Wilden (mark_at_mwilden.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:03:19 -0800

A client would like us to be able to cost data according to its size when
formatted.

The layout is actually performed by Quark and XTags, but I'm thinking it
might be possible to emulate the Quark style*** in Word, create a Word
document by applying styles to the data, then obtain a column-inch
measurement from Word.

Does this sound feasible?