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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Human Interfaces: Is Right Justification Bad
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:40:25 EDT
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> Can anyone offer pointers to articles/research proving that
> text that is left-justified and right-justified slows the
> reader down?  The hypothesis is that uneven gaps between
> words slow down the mind.

Note that "right justification" and "uneven gaps between words"
are unrelated except on low-quality output devices.

The last I heard on the right-justification war was a strong suspicion
that the answer is the same as the one for the serif war:  people read
more quickly and accurately when the text follows the style they are
most familiar with.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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