On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:44 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-03-26, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > > >> [...] nobody in their right mind would actually > >> want to generate real output that way. > > > > Back in the day it was FREQUENTLY done, in part to show off, anyone > > could type with a typewriter and get jagged right margins, but with a > > computer you could get justified margins with uneven internal spacing!! > > Status! > > It would have been better phrased "nobody _should_ actually want to". > > Sure, it was fun _producing_ output like that. But for anybody who had > to read it, the novelty wore off pretty quickly. After few lines it > was just annoying. Most of us don't need any help making our writing > even more annoying. >
You know what's a lot more fun? Perfect block justification, no ragged edges, no extra internal spaces. I'm not sure whether it's MORE annoying or LESS than using internal spaces, but it's certainly a lot more fun to write, since you have to compose on the fly. And if even that becomes easy, try creating a column of just the letter "e" in the middle of the paragraph. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
