Wakannai wrote:Really, use the genkouyoushi not the college ruled paper.
Just printed out a copy of the genkouyoushi. The squares on paper are actually much smaller than they appeared on my computer screen. They are also much smaller than the ones in the workbook I was using. Are these considered to be the general-use size? When people make handwritten notes in everyday life, is this about the size most people write?
Wakannai wrote:Having the squares there teaches you character balance and form. Writing between lines squishes your characters vertically and makes them look like pumpkins.
"Pumpkins". Very cute image

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Wakannai wrote:I don't understand this facination with writing small.
Not really a fascination. I just want my writing to be not too big, not too small. I want to be able to take a phone message, or dash off a quick, handwritten thank you note without having it take up an entire sheet of paper

. I want to write a comfortable size.
Tenorikuma wrote:Are you using Windows?
Yes, I am. No Mac in my immediate future, either, so I guess I'm stuck with jaggies. I do use Firefox, however. Hadn't played with enlarging pages until today. I found a "blackbox kanji" (a term I just made up to describe a kanji that's very intricate but so tiny it looks like a little black square on my computer screen) right over there <---- on the Shoutbox. Enlarged the page and lo and behold, it became readable! Well, it
would be readable if I was advanced enough to read kanji

. Let's say I was able to distinguish all the character's delicate beauty

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Again, thank you both for your suggestions!