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From: overlord@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Re: why hyphenate
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Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 18:13:49 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 18:13:49 1985
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Reply-To: overlord@nmtvax.UUCP (Alan Kerr)
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Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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>	My personal experience is that I agree that justified right margins
>are easier to read.  HOWEVER, several people I know - one being a documentation
>expert at AT&T Technologies and another being a newspaper editor claim that
>recent studies indicate that a non-justified right margin (``ragged right'')
>is easier to read.
>	I would be interested in seeing opinions on this matter.

     I have always found "ragged right" margins MUCH easier to read.  I think
that it looks better too.  I have trouble reading lines that have had MANY 
extra spaces thrown in to "justify it".   

for example:

words and more words of  varing length to show  you what I mean and
then    there      will   be    lots     of     spaces    due to  a
BigJargonWordThatDidNotFit  on the previous line which make it look
bad and slightly unreadable etc., etc.....

     I will probably always prefer ragged right and no hyphenation.


                                           Alan Kerr
                                           New Mexico Tech

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