Xref: utzoo bionet.sci-resources:125 sci.research:1179
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!news
From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: bionet.sci-resources,sci.research
Subject: Warning: NIH font size nit-picking
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.230208.5896@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 23:02:08 GMT
Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City
Lines: 20


	One of our faculty members had a grant administratively rejected by
NIH because, claims NIH, the guidelines for type size had been violated.
They specify 10 to 12 point type, no more than 15 characters per inch.  This
grant was done using troff, in Times Roman 10 on an Apple LaserWriter, which
is what most grants around here get done in.  Turns out, however, that Times
Roman 10 gives you an average of about 16-1/2 characters per inch.

	Apparantly somebody at NIH sits there with a ruler and counts
characters.  I suppose one could debate at length the wisdom of being so
finicky about this, but the important thing is that they are and people
should be aware that they do take this seriously and size their type
accordingly.  OBTW, they did agree to accept the grant for the same deadline
if we would print it out again in a larger size and get it back to them in a
couple of days, so I guess they are being reasonable about this.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"My karma ran over my dogma"