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-# lab-notebook
+# Lab Notebook
 
+Just a simple lab notebook to keep track of your experiments.
+
+Note that this is meant to print double-sided pages, so you will always have an even number of pages to work from. 
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+To set the number of "leafs" to produce (i.e., the number of sheets of paper you will end up printing) go to line 28 and change the value of `lfct` from 2 to something else. Note that this should be the number of _leaves_ you want, not _pages_. In other words, if you need 20 notebook pages, those will print double-sided on ten sheets of paper. So you will need to set the value of `lfct` to 11.
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+**Note:** Depending on the number of pages you need, this can take a long time to compile.