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In article <1992Oct4.183159.851@mlb.semi.harris.com>
rliles@spuds.mlb.semi.harris.com writes:

> 2. How do you justify text for both the left AND right margins without
>    running through fmt?

not sure what your first question was after, but I do have a few
comments on this one....

if you're looking for something to do right-justification, you need to
use something that offers proportional spacing (meaning, plain ASCII
terminals are out).  otherwise, you end up inserting a lot of blank
spaces between words that don't belong, and the text gets very tough
on the reader.

I suggest that you look into something like TeX for this.  in case
you're not familiar with TeX (pronounced like ``tech''), it's a
typesetting system written by Donald Knuth, and is freely available
for lots of different computers.  TeX does a wonderful job with
formatting paragraphs --- it makes minute changes to the spacing between
words and letters, to the point that even if you look *VERY* close, you
still aren't going to notice....

but short of something like that, the general rule is that you don't
do right-justification, period.  this isn't just my preference --- it's
what I've been taught for years.

hope this helps.
   --jim

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