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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: why hyphenate
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 12:38:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 12:38:45 1985
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[.hw hyp-hen]

> There is NO *real* reason to hyphenate words to split them across lines;
> it is merely a convention, established over hundreds of years by the
> printing establishment. We have a chance here to overcome this hidebound
> and annoying custom, and establish instead either variable spacing for
> justified right margins, or, better yet, settle on irregular right
> margins as the new standard.

This view is rather naive.  Right margins are justified to make the text
easier to read, and centuries of experience have vindicated the practice.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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