http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2009/06/02/teeny-little-columns-driving-me-out-of-my-mind/ A weblog for people who otherwise wouldn't. Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2009/06/02/teeny-little-columns-driving-me-out-of-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-225064 Keir Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:58:42 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/?p=1112#comment-225064 My book had 12pt text, but that was just for captions. I compared that with the text size in other books and 10pt seems about right. 12pt was way bigger than the text in the books I compared it to. I'm guessing the text size in a newspaper is smaller than 12pt too. I'm not sure if Blurb has the option to choose your font, but I know some fonts are much wider than others. I used to use certain fonts to make college papers longer without actually writing more. My book had 12pt text, but that was just for captions. I compared that with the text size in other books and 10pt seems about right. 12pt was way bigger than the text in the books I compared it to. I’m guessing the text size in a newspaper is smaller than 12pt too. I’m not sure if Blurb has the option to choose your font, but I know some fonts are much wider than others. I used to use certain fonts to make college papers longer without actually writing more.

]]> http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2009/06/02/teeny-little-columns-driving-me-out-of-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-225046 Gordon McGregor Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:33:02 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/?p=1112#comment-225046 It might be your font size choice that's causing your problems - 12pt looks good on a screen but is often too big when on a printed page - 10pt is quite common there. You may do better left justifying the text, too. It might be your font size choice that’s causing your problems – 12pt looks good on a screen but is often too big when on a printed page – 10pt is quite common there. You may do better left justifying the text, too.

]]> http://www.jowilson.org/weblog/archives/2009/06/02/teeny-little-columns-driving-me-out-of-my-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-225039 Corey Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:35:57 +0000 http://www.crazybutable.com/weblog/?p=1112#comment-225039 you must have missed the spot in the book that said justified text in narrow columns is a bad idea. you must have missed the spot in the book that said justified text in narrow columns is a bad idea.

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