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From: marcum@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Readability
Message-ID: <2334@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 12:23:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 12:23:26 1984
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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   There is a tremendous difference in readability of justified text
between fixed-pitch and variable-pitch fonts.  A variable-pitch font
(including variable-sized spaces) can still have even spacing between
words when both margins are justified.  This is a tad difficult with a
fixed-pitch font.

   When reading typeset text (variable-pitch fonts), I prefer justified
right margins; when reading non-typeset (fixed-pitch fonts), I prefer
non-justified right margins, with filled lines.

   Finally, regarding here-is-a-new-paragraph symbols, I've found that a
blank line followed by an indented line to be perfectly readable.

Alan M. Marcum		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
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