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From: sahunt@warwick.UUCP (Steve Hunt)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.research
Subject: Re: justification and readability
Message-ID: <565@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 12:47:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: snow.565
Posted: Thu Jul  3 12:47:16 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 03:33:58 EDT
References: <2217@umcp-cs.UUCP>
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Organization: Campaign for the Renaissance of Clockwork Watches
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Keywords: justified text crt display
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Summary: How much raggedness is acceptable?

In article <2217@umcp-cs.UUCP> mark@umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>There has been discussion here some time in the past few months
>regarding both the readability of CRT displays and why justified
>text is bad.  A recent article in Human Factors ("Readability of 
>Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text", Stanley Trollip and Gregory Sales, 
>Human Factors 28(2), April 1986, pp 159-163).
>combines studies of both to show that justified text on computer displays
>is read more slowly than unjustified text on computer displays.
>
>-mark
>-- 
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Interesting... what are the acceptable limits of raggedness?  What I mean
is, how much raggedness should you allow before you give up and hyphenate
the offending word?  I prefer a ragged margin to justified text, but
hyphenated words seem to slow me down much more than justification.

Have there been any studies of the effects of hyphenation on reading speed?

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