From: Guy Brandenburg 
To: Michael Burr 
CC: ATM list 
Reply-To: Guy Brandenburg 


Couder masks are really not so hard to make with a large piece of heavy
paper (file folders work well), a compass with a good sharp pen or pencil
in it, a good ruler, and a single-edge razor. I gave up on trying to print
them a long time ago. The only hard part is the cutting. The calculations
are not really hard, either, at least in my opinion, as long as you have a
calculator. All you are trying to do is to get equal areas - or else not.
And if you are unsure about what 3.4827 inches is (to pick a random
number)on a fractional-inch ruler scale, just convert it to centimeters
instead, remembering that by definition, 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters.
Works for me.

GFB

Michael Burr wrote:
>>Print it twice, turn the second one
>>upside-down, and tape them together, using the marks for registration.
>
>
> This only works partially, but it's good enough for a 12.5". The outer zone
> gets partly cut off no matter what, but I can fake it from there. Anything
> bigger, though, and I'm out of luck with Tex.
>
> Thanks,
> MTB
>
>

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