- From: Jim Taylor <JHTaylor@videodiscovery.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:31:04 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
>>> Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl> 05/16/96 07:49am >>> You, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >++ ++ At 9:33a 05/16/96, Dave Raggett wrote: >++ ++ Besides, it's generally known that justified text is harder to read than >++ raggett-..er, ragged right. ;) > >That explains that most books and packages like (La)TeX use justified >text. Justified text might be harder to read when using non-strechable >spaces, but I doubt it's true when using strechable spaces (combined >with hyphenation). Just for the record (and to drive this thread even further off topic :-), studies have shown that there is no difference in readability between ragged and justified text, *unless* the interword spacing is too great or too uneven (which happens if full spaces are used instead of microspaces and intraword spacing). My guess is that most browsers would implement justification so poorly as to lessen readability. ______________________________________________ Jim "The Frog" Taylor, Director of Information Technology <mailto:jhtaylor@videodiscovery.com> Videodiscovery, Inc. - Multimedia Education for Science and Math Seattle, WA, 206-285-5400 <http://www.videodiscovery.com/vdyweb>
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