Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kvvax4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!kvvax4!esa From: esa@kvvax4.UUCP (Esa K Viitala) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: why hyphenate Message-ID: <180@kvvax4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 07:01:13 EST Article-I.D.: kvvax4.180 Posted: Mon Nov 25 07:01:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 08:34:02 EST References: <501@harvard.ARPA> <795@mmintl.UUCP> <3353@brl-tgr.ARPA> <> Reply-To: esa@kvvax4.UUCP (Esa K Viitala) Distribution: net Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, Defence Division, Norway Lines: 14 In article <> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: > >> There is NO *real* reason to hyphenate words to split them across lines; >This view is rather naive. Right margins are justified to make the text >easier to read, and centuries of experience have vindicated the practice. I thought that right margins were justified to make documents prettier. To easier read text, one should leave the right margin unjustified, this will help the eye to perform a "carriage return". But I still agree to your comment about not hyphenating words. -- ---ekv, {seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!kvvax4!esa