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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 3580986" data-attributes="member: 813">My books are known for cramming stuff onto the page because I like to print my own PDFs and I'm always annoyed when something doesn't fit onto a minimal number of pages. My first decree if I were your layout guy would be 3 columns .1" gutters, 8pt text (10 pt titles), .75 top/bottom margins, .5 left/right margins, all paragraphs have .1" indent except the spell names.When I load SpellsA-B.rtf into Word it reports it as 17 pages (with the default 10 point text, 12 point spell names, 1 column)  Making the above formatting changes alone brings it down to 7 pages plus 1.5 columns.That is before cutting the size of the header blocks. Transforming the header blocks by just replacing the paragraph marks with  "semi-colon space", and moving the school and descriptors to the same line as spell name cut a whole page.With some abbreviations (not as harsh as I posted above), I got that file down to 6 pages plus half a column on page 7. That's 61 spells. And there are some really wordy spells in the A's: Atonement, analyze dweomer, alarm!, alter self, animal growth, antimagic shell, etc.I've attached two files. See how the harsher abbreviations actually save half a column. We could probably fit the whole SRD without changing the rules into 48 pages. 32 would require some rewriting, but again, changing the rules is unnecessary. And this is my point (in case I'm unclear). Why make a short spell resource that isn't for the popular game most people play? Because the more it deviates from the standard, the less useful it is for most folks. I'd much rather have "detailed" and "official" descriptions and lots of abbreviations than less-detailed descriptions.</blockquote>

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