Am 27.02.26 um 11:09 schrieb Mikael Sundqvist:
Hi all,
Hans and I are exploring some new alignment features, in particular
ragged right. One of the problems is to get a "nice rag". Attached is
a sample with three different settings for various hsizes. The quote
comes from a Twain book, and is in German, since that might be more
challenging.
So, please, which one, if any, look in general better, and, more
importantly, why?
The prize you might get is a new keyword to align.
Thank you for looking into this. Very nice choice of text!
Good “Flattersatz” (ragged setting) in opposite to “Rauhsatz”
(unjustified setting) should avoid hyphenation and should have a good
rhythm, i.e. alternation of longer and shorter lines, the “Flatterzone”
(ragged width, underfull tolerance) can be quite big.
Under these criteria, none of the samples is good, all have too many
hyphenations, and in “bad” places (not only at composite word
boundaries). While the hyphenation differs, none of the examples avoids
“bad” hyphenations.
All have rivers with the quotation marks.
The short lines could be even shorter, otherwise the rhythm of all three
examples is acceptable. I miss protrusion.
I can’t decide which example I like best – all three have their
“moments” in some areas.
Hraban
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