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Font Styles and Sizes
What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
How are the page margins?SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
If you're administrator on your computer, you can download tiny fonts (recommended) or even make new fonts (probably no experience).
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)John Richardsim wrote:How are the page margins?SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
XD, I would do that but I already have a pretty sweet color-coding system worked out.bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
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Any specific tiny font suggestions?UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:If you're administrator on your computer, you can download tiny fonts (recommended) or even make new fonts (probably no experience).
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... 633d732088SOnerd wrote:I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)John Richardsim wrote:How are the page margins?SOnerd wrote:What are the best font styles and sizes for cramming as much info as possible into notesheets?
Currently I'm at Arial Narrow 3.5, and am debating going down to 3. Line spacing is at .85, and spaces are all size 1 (thanks to UTF-8 for that trick).
Does anyone have a better font style/size/spacing/tips in general for maximizing space provided by an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper?
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Fill the printer margin with handwriting. If that's not enough, remove stuff that you believe to be less valuable than what you want to add, whether it be basic stuff that you have committed to memory or stuff that you feel is very unlikely to be asked about (well, the least likely of everything else to be asked about).
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Would proctors allow that?John Richardsim wrote:Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Ento is Lyfe.
Ento.
Bugs.
Insects.
I didn't choose the Bug Lyfe, the Bug Lyfe chose me.
Live and die for Teh Insectz.
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"Insects won't inherit the earth- they own it now." -Thomas Eisner, Entomologist
"No one can truly be called an entomologist , sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp". -OW Holmes
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2018 National Herpetology Bronze Medalist
2019 Herpetology National Champion
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I didn't choose the Bug Lyfe, the Bug Lyfe chose me.
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Re: Font Styles and Sizes
Are you allowed to bring 3-D glasses to a competition?John Richardsim wrote:Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
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Would proctors allow that?John Richardsim wrote:Heh, my sister recommended that one to me before...maybe I'll try it when I actually fill a page.bernard wrote:Have you considered printing your sheet so that blue and red text overlaps? Wear some 3D glasses and cover one eye at a time and hope you see just one of the colors?
Thanks, UTF-8!UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F wrote:https://support.office.com/en-us/articl ... 633d732088SOnerd wrote:I use text boxes, so I'm not sure that I can adjust the margins (although that's probably incorrect)John Richardsim wrote: How are the page margins?
All of my text boxes are placed exactly on the page so that my printer won't cut them off. They're as close to the edge as possible.
EDIT- More attempts to avoid double-posting.
Ento is Lyfe.
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I didn't choose the Bug Lyfe, the Bug Lyfe chose me.
Live and die for Teh Insectz.
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2019 Herpetology National Champion
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I didn't choose the Bug Lyfe, the Bug Lyfe chose me.
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"Insects won't inherit the earth- they own it now." -Thomas Eisner, Entomologist
"No one can truly be called an entomologist , sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp". -OW Holmes
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2019 Herpetology National Champion
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