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Posted by dorayme on 07/07/07 23:10
In article <hVLji.187987$7W4.180695@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> >> You mean justified text?
> >>
> >> div {text-align: justify;}
> >
> > Come to think of it, it used to look terrible when I tried it
>
> It mostly looks terrible or very terrible. My old dusty page on
> justification,
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/justify.html
> is probably _a little_ too pessimistic, since many browser bugs have been
> fixed. However, the basic problems still remain:
>
....
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/25vztl
>
> It's not that bad on IE or Firefox either. But it's largely because the line
> length is relatively large, as compared with the use of mostly short words.
>
> Yet, if you look e.g. at the start of the 3rd paragraph ("He asked the camel
> hire..."), you'll notice that word spacing is disturbingly larger than on
> the page as a whole. This would not happen in good book typography.
>
You are right. It is barely passable even in good circumstances
and is not to be recommended generally. I was just a little
surprised that browser justification had improved from the last
time I looked years back.
Must be a hard technical problem to write code for a browser that
uses more than brutal word spacing? But there are quite some
inherently difficult requirements to satisfy in a general
algorithmic way. In the url I provide above, if the window is
narrowed a lot, the text that runs down the side of the picture
could be better done.
Frankly, I find it hard to fan any slight desire for justified
text.
The only circumstance I can think of for now would be trick texts
that the reader is required to read both from left to right and
from right to left on alternate lines.
--
dorayme
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