Re: why hyphenate

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From: Gary Benson
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1985 19:25

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> > 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.  :-)

It wasn't. It was left justified, but right ragged.

The view [down with hyphens] is not at all naive. Centuries of experience
have given us centuries of colonels who think that everything that's all
nicely lined up is "better".

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