On Jul 6, 2004, at 12:45 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Well, I didn't argue for that explanation,
Yes. I thought I was careful in wording my response so as not to imply otherwise.
Of course, fully justified text is completely out of style these days, mostly because it takes sophisticated algorithms and proper hyphenation to make it come out right, and most word processors simply aren't up to the task, and produce horridly ugly justification (especially for narrow line widths).
When I was working at Berkeley I used to use LaTeX a lot, and it had a lovely justification routine, which actually considered the entire paragraph instead of just one line at a time. It is a continuing source of amazement to me that no significant word-processing program has followed suit. Obviously, it can be done, yet they persist in the dumb algorithms that yield the ugly justification you describe. The only explanation I can find is that people just don't care about ugly justification.
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