with smaller handwriting or to fit more lines per page. Pitman ruled paper has ruling specialized for stenography. It has spacing between ruling lines, with a single margin drawn down the center of the page. Wide ruled (or legal ruled) paper has spacing between horizontal lines, with a vertical margin drawn about from the left-hand edge of the page. It is commonly used by American children in grade school, as well as by those with larger handwriting. United Kingdom There appears to be no British Standard. However, the line spacing for adult ruled paper is most commonly 8 mm and squared maths paper is 5 mm². There is specialist handwriting paper available for primary schools ("Education standard Learn to Write Exercise books") and a British Standard BS4448 ("Specification for school exercise books and papers"). You can find ruled paper at 15 mm spacing and squared maths paper at 10 mm² spacing. Anything above primary school tends to use adult ruling. See also Exercise book Genkō yōshi Graph paper References External links Example Graph Paper Template Incompetech can generate PDF files of graph and ruled paper with customizable spacing and sizes. RuledPaper.net ruled paper online generator. writingpaper.py is a Python script that can create French-ruled paper without the vertical lines. Printing and writing paper