Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year

[fellmama]

Mary's Sem Paper: A Tale of Woe.

Mary's Seminar Paper was to be between 24 and 25 pages in length. NO LESS than three-quarters of the 24th page to be filled; no MORE than the very last line of the 25th page. This is a DEPARTMENTAL requirement.

Mary wrote and wrote and wrote and thought she wouldn't have a long enough paper, because she had only seventeen full pages written when she woke up this morning.

Boy was SHE in for a surprise.

Length of paper with 12-pt. font and 1.25" margins: 28 pages and two lines.

Length of paper with all double spaces after periods converted to single spaces: 27 and three-quarters pages.

Length of paper with 1" margins (the actual size requested by the professor): 26 and a half pages.

Length of paper with .9" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 pages and two lines.

Final length of paper with 1.1" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 and a half pages.

If Kyra takes a ruler to Mary's margins, Mary is going to beat her to death with her copy of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume One.

Comments

[parksdh.livejournal.com]

Have you tried any other options, such as fine-grained control of the line spacing or, even better yet, character spacing/kerning? That would make you truly hardcore--anybody can change margins.

[aspend.livejournal.com]

Wow. I am impressed. Nothing like playing with the paper settings to make a paper the right length. Imagine my surprise when I found out that French paper is not the same size as american paper! Who would have thought!

[superquail.livejournal.com]

It would appear that you are pulling a Ruty!

[superquail.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's fucked up.

[rootlesscosmo.livejournal.com]

Renee Rosnes (who pronounces her first name to rhyme with "zucchini," don't ask me why) is terrific. I heard her here with Bobby Hutcherson, then at a SF Jazz Fest program with Joshua Redman. Wonderful player--chops a-plenty but never just glib.

[a-cole.livejournal.com]

wait, did you try 12 font and one inch margins? How'd that work out? I agree with Dan about kerning.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

What is this kerning you speak of?

[catka83.livejournal.com]

I like to do 1.9 spacing instead of double; it's almost indiscernible from double by the naked eye, but can save you lines and lines of space in the long run.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

Times New Roman "or equivalent"

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

That was attempt number three.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

This is a random NPR "Jazz Piano Christmas" compilation. I enjoy it immensely.

[princessrosered.livejournal.com]

hey, I totally helped in the process (if shouting fairly useless comments from the next room counts), don't I get any credit! I mean, you may have written a ~25 page paper, but I shouted out random ways to make it slightly different lengths...I'm the one with the real accomplishment here!