Why the school still prints the daily sheet

The school prints because a finished session should not twitch while six people argue about a wick. On a screen the last bar is a living animal. On A3 paper it is a rectangle you can point at without the rectangle changing its mind.

Visitors sometimes ask whether we are against electronic charts. We are not. We are against practising candle recipes on a bar that is still forming. The evening sitting uses the prior day’s close, named at the top of the sheet, with the instrument and the session printed in the same corner. If that corner is empty, the sheet does not enter the argument.

Ink also slows the hand. Coloured pencil on a wick is harder to undo than a drawing tool, so people hesitate — which is the habit we want before anyone speaks a reversal name.

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