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Error: B45a Re: diy pocket editions II
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Jan 12, 17:29 -0800
From: Andrew Nikitin <nsg21---com>
To: hannoix---net
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 1:15 PM
Subject: [NavList 21905] diy pocket editions
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2013 Jan 12, 17:29 -0800
Andrew,
I looked somewhat more at your tables and I saw you are
listing Integers as well as Real Numbers. This may lead
to results with apparently more digits than
warranted.
See: http://www.chem.sc.edu/faculty/morgan/resources/sigfigs/sigfigs5.html
h
From: Hanno Ix <hannoix@att.net>
To: hannoix@att.net
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 2:56 PM
Subject: [NavList 21913] Re: diy pocket editions
To: hannoix@att.net
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 2:56 PM
Subject: [NavList 21913] Re: diy pocket editions
This is very nice!
I have tried to do someyhing similar but yours
looks better than mine.
Let me toss out some suggestions based on my experience
1. There is still a lot of white space - can
you enlarge your tables
and arrange/enlarge them to use more of it?
2. I found for the intended purpose increments of 2 min is quite OK!
Interpolation becomes rather easy -
IF you need it at all.
Both of the above will probably allow you to get all on one page.
3 . For easy look-up you may want to emphasize some prominent locations
like headers/footers and
the ten's of minutes, i.e. with
underlining, boxing, different fonts, different sizes, bold, italics etc.
4. Yes, small fonts do look
thinner. Therfore I use bold face. I also noticed,
at least in my tables, that the white spave between rows may be relatively
small as compared to the characters.
5. As far as fonts: I prefer monospaced fonts for tables.
See: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ has plent of examples.
h
From: Andrew Nikitin <nsg21---com>
To: hannoix---net
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 1:15 PM
Subject: [NavList 21905] diy pocket editions
I tried my hand in making a tiny "book" that fits in the shirt pocket.
I used 2.75"x4.25" (1/8 of a Letter) as a page size. I found out that different fonts have very different legibility at low sizes. Calibri (new default Microsoft sans serif font) looks decent at 6 pt, but I wonder if there are any fonts that were specifically designed to look good in small sizes? Any suggestions?
I used 2.75"x4.25" (1/8 of a Letter) as a page size. I found out that different fonts have very different legibility at low sizes. Calibri (new default Microsoft sans serif font) looks decent at 6 pt, but I wonder if there are any fonts that were specifically designed to look good in small sizes? Any suggestions?
Another unexpected problem with small fonts, is that the lines they are composed off, are noticeably thinner and, as a result, when printed on laser printer, the toner would simply start crumbling away. I really do not see how to overcome this, other than switching to ink jet printer.
Anyway, here is what I end up with. This is compact Ageton tables with some instructions. It is to be printed on both
side of the paper (duplex, short edge), each page cut in 4 pieces, stacked, folded and
stapled.
nsg
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