- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:44:16 -0700
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 11/04/12 9:25 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: > Full justification should always be adjusting to space between letters. > > By full justification do you mean normal paragraph justification, or do you mean forced justification (in which even the last line is justified, although when normally spaced it would be shorter than the other lines)? I think you'll find that the vast majority of typographers will disagree with you, as will, I suspect, cognitive psychologists studying reading. Varying the space between words is acceptable within tolerances, but letterspacing is not. Typefaces are designed for letters to knit together into words according to particular rhythm of internal and external white space. Varying letterspacing breaks word units. The first key to successful full justification is good hyphenation, to minimise the variation in word spacing. If hyphenation is done properly -- which means analysing more than one line of text -- you never get into a situation in which letterspacing even occurs as an option. JH
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