Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/25/07 15:44

Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:

> Well, justification on narrow columns without sophisticated letter
> spacing and kerning will result in that classic newspaper effect:
>
> UTF-8, and other

It tends to result in a simplistic rendering where just word spacing is
adjusted, but I don't think it's adequate to call this "that classic
newspaper effect". Newspaper typography varies in quality, but what I'd call
_classic_ uses a more elaborate method.

In fact, the nonstandard CSS declaration text-justify: newspaper, as
supported by IE, makes justification more clever. As Microsoft puts it:
"Increases or decreases the spacing between letters and between words. It is
the most sophisticated form of justification for Latin alphabets."

Source:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/textjustify.asp

Pragmatically speaking, if you use text-align: justify, you should also use
text-justify: newspaper, if your document uses the Latin script. It improves
the situation on IE and causes no harm on other browsers.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
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