Hyphenation is another reason justification works in 
print but not on the web. Print publishing software and 
systems hyphenate words, which helps even out the 
odd word spacing that justification can produce (as 
others have mentioned). Browsers don't hyphenate text!

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 10 Mar 2004, at 19:23, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> If the width of a column is small, it means that there are
> very few words on a column. Maybe on a line it will fit
> only two words if the surrounding text of those words is
> formed from longer words which don't fit into that line.
> Well, in that line it will be a very large gap between
> those 2 words.
> 
> In longer lines there are more words, and even if a large
> gap will be printed into that line, that gap will be
> distributed among all words, so each individual gap will
> be pretty small.
> 
> I never justify on the web but only on other media, so I
> don't know what happends to the last line of a block of
> text. Normally, it should not reach up to the right of the
> text block...
> 
> 
> Teddy
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Krockover" <gary(at)garykrockover.com>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: To Justify or Not To Justify
> 
> 
> > I'm in the party with I think it varies with the site.
> >  For instance, I used justify on www.wilcotxmarines.org
> > for most of the pages because the columns are rather
> > narrow like a newspaper or magazine article and so there
> > (generally) aren't large gaps between words.  On columns
> 


 

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