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Hi All of my friends from Fountain Pen-dom.. I wanted to throw out a question to everybody about something I've been thinking about quite a lot in the past few months. And that is: Medieval Text Layout Here are some useful links I've found while doing a google search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction http://home.comcast.net/~meisterin.katarina/page_layout.html I've been using it extensively and I enjoy it a lot. When I'm doing my journalling in a Tomoe River Notebook with blank-unruled pages, I always put a guide sheet underneath the page I'm writing on, and the guide sheet (up till now) had only the ruled lines. But I've created new guide sheets with these broader margins now and I stay within the margins when I write. It looks very neat and clean. On the wikipedia page, they mentioned that there's something called "Canons of Page Construction". And it describes the various geometric procedures to arrive at a page layout. Von de Graaf canon, Golden Canon etc. And one of the solutions that satisfies the specifications of these canons is where you use 1/9th of the page's length as the margin size for the header, and 2/9ths as the footer. Similarly you use 1/9th of the page's width as the size for the margins adjacent to the spine and 2/9ths on the outer sides. Ultimately this causes 1/3rd of the space (in both directions, length and width, since 1/9 + 2/9 = 3/9 or 1/3) and that creates quite a pleasing negative space. Another upshot is, that wider footer and side margins create a little more relief for you to rest your palm on while writing. With really fat books like Nanami Seven Seas Writer, the heel of my palm always falls off the cliff if I write all the way up to the edge. Since I've been obsessed with this concept. I've gone ahead and purchased a gadget off of fleabay which helps me along with determining these proportions: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251927782294?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D251927782294%26_rdc%3D1 It's called a Fibonacci-Proportional Divider. The lug nut that keeps this scissor-like contraption together is actually movable. And this thing can be configured to give a scaled porportional length (either scaling up or scaling down, depending on which end you use) of ratios 1:1 or 2:1 or 3:1 or 4:1 or 5:1. And on the other side 1:1.618 (golden ratio). It's a very handy little tool. I use it to measure out the length (or width of my page, be it A4 or A5), and the tool is configured to scale down to 3:1 I then mark off the distance that comes out the other end and re-apply another 3:1 compression to finally end up with 1/9th of the distance I originally started with. I use that 1/9th now to mark out my margins of 1/9 and 2/9. No measuring distances with a ruler and division of numbers is involved. No arithmetic whatsoever. But I'm able to get what I need. It's really quite a smart little tool. So after mentioning all of this, my question to all is: Am I crazy? Has anyone dived into this area so deep? Have you found anything in this area that might be interesting for me to explore further?