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From: rps@homxc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PC-Write (was Re: spelling chequers)
Message-ID: <1880@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 15:03:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 23 15:03:28 1987
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: description of PC-Write ver 2.7 justification

From the PC-Write version 2.7 manual:

"To justify, PC-Write finds spaces in a line and adds Soft-Spaces after them
until it fills out the line.  It adds Soft-Spaces first after spaces that
follow punctuation marks, then after other spaces between words.  PC-Write
inserts the spaces in alternate lines from the left and the right, to avoid a
wavy look on the page."

This seems to explain the effect in version 2.6 of padding more than 2 spaces
after a period.  Version 2.7 will micro justify if your printer is capable of
graphics, such as an Epson FX or IBM ProPrinter.  Micro Justification is where
all the words on the line are the same distance apart.  PC-Write will not
remove hard spaces (like the two that normally follow a period) during regular
or micro justification but it may add to them.  This sort of behavior seems
typical of text justification functions on the various word processors I have
used.

Russ Sharples
homxc!rps