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Article #2122Ragged Right Problems
From: Bill "Bill" Tuthill
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 21:56
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 21:56
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Contemporary page designs often call for ragged right (unjustified) body text. Both troff and Frame have trouble producing harmonious looking ragged right text. The principal problem is that certain words get stranded near the right margin, and would look better if placed on the following line. For example, this text Not only does this violate the ANSI C standard, but it can cause big problems in application and library code. looks better like this: Not only does this violate the ANSI C standard, but it can cause big problems in application and library code. Does anybody know of any troff or Frame methods for beautifying ragged right text? In this day and age, when DWB 3.1 costs $30k, TeX looks increasingly attractive because of its sophisticated filling and hyphenation algorithms.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!cairo.Eng.Sun.COM!tut From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Ragged Right Problems Message-ID: <3108@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 19 Nov 90 21:56:07 GMT Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 20