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Article #138Re: Re: why hyphenate
From: overlord
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1985 23:13
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1985 23:13
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> 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.
I have always found "ragged right" margins MUCH easier to read. I think
that it looks better too. I have trouble reading lines that have had MANY
extra spaces thrown in to "justify it".
for example:
words and more words of varing length to show you what I mean and
then there will be lots of spaces due to a
BigJargonWordThatDidNotFit on the previous line which make it look
bad and slightly unreadable etc., etc.....
I will probably always prefer ragged right and no hyphenation.
Alan Kerr
New Mexico Tech
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!nmtvax!overlord From: overlord@nmtvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Re: why hyphenate Message-ID: <889@nmtvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 18:13:49 EST Article-I.D.: nmtvax.889 Posted: Sat Nov 30 18:13:49 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 06:30:19 EST References: <501@harvard.ARPA> <795@mmintl.UUCP> <3353@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2539@sunybcs.UUCP> <> Reply-To: overlord@nmtvax.UUCP (Alan Kerr) Distribution: net Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro Lines: 28