---On 29 Apr 2002 10:56:08 -0600,  Jamis Buck said

> Thanks for the hint -- I'll do a diff next time. ;)  I'm new to all
> this, so please forgive any newbie mistakes.
> 
> I think I've figured out why the ALIGNMENT_JUSTIFY will sometimes not
> justify a given line.  The AlignText function is saying that the line
> will not be justified if the line length is less than 25% of the maximum
> line length.  I assume this assumption is to catch the last line of a
> paragraph, but this also means that if a line is wrapped because of a
> long word at the end (ie, "blah blah supercalifragilistic..."), the
> "blah blah" will not be justified.

    then your example it would be justified like this:

    Lots 'o words in the document
    even  more  stuff  than  that.
           blah        blah
     supercalifragilisticexpiali
    then  some  more  words  here

    That's why I had it not justify short lines.

--re: Re: Word wrap on a hyphen

                                Chris

Christopher R. Hawks Software Engineer
Syscon Plantstar a Division of Syscon International
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