Re: To justify or not?

by Tamara <tamara(at)abbeyink.com>

Date:	Thu, 03 May 2001 19:09:06 -0500
To:	Sue Bailey <sue(at)bartandsue.co.uk>, hwg-techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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At 10:51 PM 5/3/2001 +0100, Sue Bailey wrote:
>Is there any received wisdom about whether justified or non-justified
>text is easier to read on-screen? It's a one column page, approx. 10-15
>words per line; I think justified makes a better looking page, but I
>_hate_ the lumps of white-space it puts in lines with several long
>words!!

NO! NO! NO!

As a former copy editor, I thought, ooooh justified, way to go -- but, 
given the myriad resolutions, platforms and browsers -- it's gonna get real 
ugly real fast since HTML justification /will not/ split words.

Instead     you      get      stuff           like          this.

FWIW,
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