Re: why hyphenate

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From: Col. G. L. Sicherman
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1985 19:58

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> 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".

Actually, I prefer ragged right for constant-width fonts, like typewriter
output and ASCII.  (But I still hyphenate it!  There's such a thing as
being too ragged.)

::
	"Please do not play this piece fast!  Ragtime should NEVER
	 be played fast."
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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