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Article #136Re: why hyphenate
From: emjej
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1985 16:36
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1985 16:36
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/* Written 9:04 am Nov 25, 1985 by ado@elsie.UUCP in net.internat */ > This view is rather naive. Right margins are justified to make the text > easier to read, and centuries of experience have vindicated the practice. If that's true, I wonder why the above text was left ragged. :-) /* End of text from net.internat */ Because the author didn't have the facilities (i.e. proportional spacing and the ability to insert arbitrary-width space between characters) to support justification. If printers were stuck with fixed-width fonts, I bet they'd use ragged right margins, too. James Jones
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uokvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!okstate.UUCP!uokvax.UUCP!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: why hyphenate Message-ID: <51400003@uokvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: uokvax.51400003 Posted: Fri Nov 29 11:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Dec-85 03:32:07 EST References: <2539@sunybcs.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:sunybcs.UUCP:2539:uokvax.UUCP:51400003:000:604 Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej Nov 29 10:36:00 1985