On 3/27/20 3:28 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Back when I was a kid, and wordprocessors were exemplified by WordStar, I > heard about a study the conclusion of which was that aligned right edges > were harder to read - that it was better to align on the left and leave the > right ragged. > > But one study doesn't establish truth.
I've read poorly-typeset, self-published books that were really hard to read due to the way the full justification worked out. Not sure if that's just due to the poor typesetting job (a word processor probably did it), or the font, or what. There must be some tricks that publishers use to both justify and keep the text looking good and readable. At one point in the print world, the majority of what I read is fully justified, yet still quite readable. Even now I think most published books I've seen recently are fully justified. These days, seems like more and more is ragged-right, such as magazines, which is probably due to the prevalence of digital media where it's probably easier to generate and easier to read on small screens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
