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Article #117Re: why hyphenate
From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 17:38
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 17:38
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> There is NO *real* reason to hyphenate words to split them across lines;
> it is merely a convention, established over hundreds of years by the
> printing establishment. We have a chance here to overcome this hidebound
> and annoying custom, and establish instead either variable spacing for
> justified right margins, or, better yet, settle on irregular right
> margins as the new standard.
This view is rather naive. Right margins are justified to make the text
easier to read, and centuries of experience have vindicated the practice.
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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