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Article #122Re: Re: why hyphenate
From: Larry Lippman
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 20:58
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 20:58
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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.
My personal experience is that I agree that justified right margins
are easier to read. HOWEVER, several people I know - one being a documentation
expert at AT&T Technologies and another being a newspaper editor claim that
recent studies indicate that a non-justified right margin (``ragged right'')
is easier to read.
I would be interested in seeing opinions on this matter.
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