Bible study planner

What the sheet is

A4 landscape, 841.89 by 595.28 points, with seven columns across it, one for each day from Monday to Sunday and the names printed in full. The drawing is fifty ruled lines, one box and ten words of print, and the file is 4,189 bytes. It carries the same title as the plain weekly sheet, Weekly planner, Monday to Sunday.

The line count is where it parts company with that sheet, which has seventy-one lines on the same paper. Fifty lines across an A4 landscape page is ruling for a reference and a sentence beside it rather than ruling for a list. 24.1 millimetres a row here against 16 on the plain weekly sheet

There is no reading plan on it

The sheet carries no passages, no chapter order, no dates and no schedule of any kind. That is deliberate, and it is the main thing to know before downloading it. Reading plans are published by many different bodies and they disagree with each other about order, pace and what to include. Which one a reader follows, or whether they follow one at all, is a decision made somewhere other than here. This site draws ruled paper, and printing one plan onto the sheet would make that choice on the reader’s behalf without any standing to make it, as well as tying the paper to a plan the reader may not be using. Blank columns take any plan, or none, and they take it in the reader’s own hand.

What goes in a column

Room for a reference and room for a note next to it. There are ten words of print on the whole page, so nothing is labelled passage or notes: the columns are blank under the day names and the split within a day is the reader’s to make. One line for the reference and one for the note, or the reference at the top of the day and the rest given over to writing, are both the same sheet.

Day names in full

All seven names are printed whole rather than abbreviated. Where a column is too narrow to hold a name, the name is shortened and the type is left at its size, because reducing the lettering to fit one heading reduces it on every line underneath. Seven columns across A4 landscape leaves room for the full words, so nothing is cut here.

Black only

The sheet is drawn in black and nothing on it is keyed by colour. A form that needs colour to be read comes out of a mono printer with that part of it removed, and a sheet drawn here has no say in which printer it meets. What is printed here is exactly what was drawn.

Written in the browser

The PDF is written on this page. A geometry engine takes the settings, works out the columns and the fifty lines, and writes the file byte by byte in the browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is licensed from anyone and there is no template stored on a server. Change a setting and the sheet is drawn again and the file rewritten, so the sheet on screen and the file that downloads are one and the same.