A month's report, drawn in curves
A pie of where the hours went, a ring gauge of how far into the year the work is, a card with eased corners, and arcs told where to go rather than how far to turn.
A plan that shows what can be read
A plan of a plot is read at two distances. Across a desk, somebody wants to know which plot it is and how wide it is, and that has to read at arm's length. On the screen, enlarged, the builder wants the figure written on each wall — and those figures are so small that at ordinary size they are a grey smudge over the drawing. Draw both at once and the plan is crowded when it is looked at whole and coarse when it is enlarged. The sentence under the plan has the same trouble again: the buyer reads French, the bank reads English, and keeping two plans side by side means two plans to keep in step.
Here the document settles it by itself, and nobody touches the panel down the side of the reader. The plot's name stands over the plan while the plan is looked at whole, and steps back the moment it is enlarged past two hundred per cent; at that same moment the wall figures come in, the ones nobody could read at ordinary size. Two hundred per cent is where the two change over, so exactly one of them stands at any magnification. The sentence under the plan is written once in each language, and a reader shows the one it is set to — a reader set to a language the document does not carry reads the one the page itself is written in.
What this example shows
- A wide plot name that stands while the plan is looked at whole.
- Wall figures that come in once the plan is enlarged twice over.
- One sentence a language, and a reader shows the one it is set to.
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