Lined paper

[Mike-S]

What is your favourite lie spacing. Mine is 8mm but no retailer seems to mention spacing.

[LizEF]

I think I prefer 7mm, maybe 6.  JetPens.com tells you line spacing.  Check GouletPens, they usually have good specs on their products, so they might, too.

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, Mike-S said:

What is your favourite lie spacing.

 

Sparingly, to make them more convincing from the liar's point of view, and palatable from the gaslighted audience's perspective.

 

2 hours ago, Mike-S said:

no retailer seems to mention spacing.

 

Shouldn't it be left to the product specifications to state it? A lot of Japanese notebook products will tell you on their covers what the line spacing is on the pages them.

 

Completely different idea from making it a selectable product search criterion on a retailer's online store or product database; but that's not the implication of “mention”.

[inkstainedruth]

Most stuff I've seen here in the US tends to be listed as "wide ruled" (if at all) or "college ruled".  Sometimes I've seen grid/graph paper but don't normally see the dot-grid stuff except in specialty stores.  And of course the only place I *ever* remember seeing "French ruled" notebooks was in Bromfield's in Boston (and that was before they got bought out by Appelboom -- I don't get up to the Boston area much anymore).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[arcfide]

I prefer at least 7mm spacing, and I actually think 9mm might be my ideal spacing, as found in the Masuya Monokaki notebooks of larger size. I can put up with 1cm line spacing, as well as 7mm line spacing, but it really starts to be too wide or narrow for me. I also find the 7.5mm Tsubame Note line spacing pretty good, but things really start to feel "free" when I get up to 9mm. 

[ridiculopathy]

I like 6mm, but most of my favorite notebook/paper makers use 7mm.

[Skydiver]

I prefer the 5.5mm ruled paper we had in the Philippines. Nowadays, I just get the 5mm dot grid paper whenever I can.

[Paul-in-SF]

7 mm seems to work for me, writing in English using the usual alphabet, even though my descenders often touch the next line down and I end up writing through them on the next written line. 8 mm is also OK, 6 mm feels cramped to me, and anything larger than 8 mm feels like I'm wasting paper (I was raised to be frugal -- the lesson has mostly only stuck with the small things). 

[amper]

I typically use 5 mm ruling for my personal organizer products, but there are some situations in which I will use 4.233 mm (12 pt) ruling for compactness on small page sizes, or 7 mm quadrille (which many people regard as optimal for CJKV writing).

[Doc Dan]

College ruled is 7mm (7.1). Wide ruled is 9mm (8.7). I don't really have a preference, but if forced to choose it would probably be 7mm.