Charsheet 2013 first page
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This is a minor re-working of the ideas from Temp_Charsheet_Notes.
The format will still be the combined "safe" area of the international A4 and the USA-centric "Letter" format, 257mm in width and 190mm in height. It will still be 140%-zoomable so as to be printable on 2 pages, for the slightly vision-impaired. That can probably be done with all the pages, not just the first page, the "front page".
The font will be Times New Roman, due to its being so widespread. Font size will be 9.5, chosen because it's not prose text, so 9.5 ought to be almost as readable as 10.0 or 10.5, and it's only at 8 that true "eyestrain" is said to begin. Using the "zoom print" solution, effective font size is 9.5x1.41 = 13.4, which is presumably readable by almost everyone. There really isn't anything that can be done, I think, for the severely vision-impaired, in terms of making an information-dense system, with detailedly-defined characters, such as Sagatafl, usable.
The new thing is that I'd like to use height-merged cells too, so that most cells containing text aren't just merged horizontally (from a base cell width of perhaps 2.8 or 2.9mm) but also height-wise merged so that 2 cells' worth of height combined to becomeone cell large enough to contain text. I imagine the height of each such cell will be 3 or 3.5mm, making for a height of 6 or 7mm for a merged cell. Or whatever is required to comfortably fit 9.5 TNR text.
The effect of this is that the grey spacing between the white boxes will be of more uniform width, whereas with the current layout method, while admittedly much simpler, you tend to get big vertical spacing and narrow horzontal spacing, differing by a factor of about 2 or even slightly omre, which is less visually appealing.
The numbers
There's be an empty stripe down the middle (of the landscape-format - wider-than-tall - layouted sheet) preferably of more than one cell's width.
with 257mm total width to work with, a cell width of 2,8mm gives 91,79 cells' width. Subtracting 2 for the left- and right-side border leaves 89 cells and small change. If the central column of cells, all empty grey, are allowed to be 1,79 times as wide as a normal cell, that makes for 5mm width, which is probably fine.
I'll save this, and fire up Libre Office and do some tests...
