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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: why hyphenate
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Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:36:00 EST
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/* Written  9:04 am  Nov 25, 1985 by ado@elsie.UUCP in net.internat */
> This view is rather naive.  Right margins are justified to make the text
> easier to read, and centuries of experience have vindicated the practice.

If that's true, I wonder why the above text was left ragged.  :-)
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Because the author didn't have the facilities (i.e. proportional spacing
and the ability to insert arbitrary-width space between characters) to
support justification.  If printers were stuck with fixed-width fonts, I
bet they'd use ragged right margins, too.

						James Jones