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From: aden@orion.UUCP (Michael Aden)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Typography--Was Re: ventura
Message-ID: <18366@orion.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 00:24:15 GMT
References: <32118@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <7650004@hpwrce.HP.COM> <32294@sri-unix.SRI.COM> <1368@lzfme.att.com> <1989Jun14.000700.27327@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <1989Jun14.000700.27327@comp.vuw.ac.nz> alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley) writes:
>2. Justified type is harder to read than than ragged right.
>
>	...

If I might add an explanation for justification as I see it,
the ragged right is a distraction while reading, so I have a hard time
going from line to line without drifting back and forth between lines.
That would explain (to me at least) why one of the few places ragged text
works is in bullet lists with isolation space around the text.

But then again, maybe I should stick to plumbing - I think installing 
shower stalls is a piece of cake! :-)


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