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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: Human Interfaces: Is Right Justification Bad
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 21:19:46 EDT
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I would expect that right justification is bad because your mind
keeps track of what line you are on in the text by noting the
pattern of words and white space.  The most conspicuous sort of
white space is the one at the end of the line.  If they are all
the same, your mind has to work harder to keep track of where
you are.  I seem to notice that I lose my line more often when
the text is RJ than otherwise.  Perhaps people should test this
theory with text that is RJ but not LJ (of course, it would take
the mind a while to realize that it was getting clues from
the left side.)  
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Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh