G'day Jess A,

I glad to see you bought In the Present Tense Book 5 ... and that you appear to have been able to read the lyrics!

The first four books, printed back in the '70s by Galliard were a bit taxing for most ... being set in (roughly) 7-point type. Once Stainer & Bell bought out Galliard the 5th book was, for reasons known only to S & B, set in (~) 5-point.

I have good close vision - but I wasn't impressed. I showed it to my wife, asking what she thought of the lyrics' type ... and she said: "What type? Do you mean that faint grey blur?". I have no idea why they made it so small - there was adequate room for much better-sized type ... Maybe it was to make it 'harder to photocopy', since they seem worried about returns on their copyright investments.

Regards,

Bob