hi ted > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:57:58AM -0700, Mike Sleger wrote: >> On Nov 13, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Murray Strome wrote: >> >>> If a paragraph fits on a single line and almost fills it, using force >>> justify looks better. >> THAT is the case I was trying to remember! I too have used force justify in >> both Word and Scribus because when you have multiple paragraphs, some >> multi-line and others single-line, it usually looks better if both the left >> and right margins are aligned for all paragraphs. When a single-line >> paragraph is short, normal justify looks better, but when it's just a bit >> short of a full line, then force justify looks better. > Many years ago (30+) when I had access to a Triple-I phototypesetter I > put together an application that did simple page layout and formatting. > One of the user-settable parameters was a threshold on the length of > the last line of a paragraph, expressed as a percentage. Final lines > exceeding the threshold were justified, the others not. The Scribus > choices "Align Text Justified" and "Align Text Forced Justified" would > correspond to 100% and 0% respectively. >
nice! the more i read about this topic, the more i think that the forced justified should really go to a "first/last line" tab and the threshold you designed 30 years ago should be in there! if you have any spare time you're welcome to provide a patch :-) other ideas of the same quality from your prehistorical application are more than welcome! have a nice day a.l.e
