Posted by jake on 05/26/05 11:34

In message <slrnd9alh1.23a.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>, Blinky the
Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> writes
>This isn't HTML, but it's related. Look at what full justification does
>to the word spacing in the narrow paragraph next to the image.
>
>And there are rivers there you could sail the fleet through. (Do HTML
>authors know what rivers are, or is that strictly a printing term?)
>
>http://tinyurl.com/82pj2 =
>
>http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1865/assasssination
>-abraham-lincoln.htm
>
I suspect that the problem here is that it was created by someone
without much experience of HTML coding.

They've scanned the original (or facsimile) and generated the HTML
directly from the OCR program -- which will have attempted to preserve
the (exact) original layout, font and font-size, etc.

Or maybe they used the OCR program to generate an MS Word file; Word
then being used to generate the HTML.

It probably seemed a good idea at the time ;-)

regards.


--
Jake

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