Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
John Kane wrote: It depends :) I think that there was some research in the 1980s suggesting that ragged is easier to read. I think, though, that it may depend on the width of the paper. I was having the devil of a time reading a research proposal my boss had handed me. It is justified and

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On typographical matters, I generally seek advice from two sources: Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographical Style James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography Bringhurst, who generally prefers justified lines in setting books, has this to say about the occasions when ragged right

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
John Kane wrote: It depends :) I think that there was some research in the 1980s suggesting that ragged is easier to read. I think, though, that it may depend on the width of the paper. I was having the devil of a time reading a research proposal my boss had handed me. It is justified and

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On typographical matters, I generally seek advice from two sources: Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographical Style James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography Bringhurst, who generally prefers justified lines in setting books, has this to say about the occasions when ragged right

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
John Kane wrote: It depends :) I think that there was some research in the 1980s suggesting that ragged is easier to read. I think, though, that it may depend on the width of the paper. I was having the devil of a time reading a research proposal my boss had handed me. It is justified and

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On typographical matters, I generally seek advice from two sources: Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographical Style James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography Bringhurst, who generally prefers justified lines in setting books, has this to say about the occasions when ragged right

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Rich, You're talking about character protrusion, but the package does font expansion and much more. Bottomline: text looks better. I can think of few reasons not to use it. Eran, The mechanism doesn't matter to me. The results do. And it does add

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Rich, You're talking about character protrusion, but the package does font expansion and much more. Bottomline: text looks better. I can think of few reasons not to use it. Eran, The mechanism doesn't matter to me. The results do. And it does add

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Rich, You're talking about character protrusion, but the package does font expansion and much more. Bottomline: text looks better. I can think of few reasons not to use it. Eran, The mechanism doesn't matter to me. The results do. And it does add

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin. Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: My vote is full justification. Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right margin. While under

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin. Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: My vote is full justification. Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a short book called Troubleshooting: Just the Facts. The intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate paragraphs, and I

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right margin. While under

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin. Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Shepard wrote: > My vote is full justification. Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread John Kane
--- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting: > Just the Facts". The > intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed > and staple bound by the > customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than > indentation to separate >

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual

Re: Do you like justified or ragged right?

2007-02-07 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward reducing hyphens and improving fit. If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right margin. While under