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From: dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: re: right justification (correction)
Message-ID: <556@hou2b.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 22:27:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 22:27:30 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Jun-85 09:22:24 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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it sounds like there are several things the "mind" must do to read.
keeping track of the current and next line is certainly one of them
it also sounds as if the lines could be right justified as long as
it is not also right justified.  but all this could be solved by using
	       ^^^^^
	    (i mean left)
a bookmark or something.

i took a psycholinguistics course once and the professor did an interesting
experiment with us once.  we read some text that had been right justified
using some algorithm that put the necessary spaces between the words
uniformly and an algorithm that grouped phrases together and put spaces
uniformly around phrases.  it turned out that our reading speed and
comprehension was significantly greater (in the statistical sense) when
the phrases were grouped together.  this makes sense but its nice to
see that common sense can be used for practical applications.

danny chen
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