RE: Justified versus ragged right

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 Ron Hearn noted:
> CMOS recommends ragged right in its discussion of Justification.  I
also
> have heard that ragged-right text is better because with justified
text,
> all lines are the same length and thus harder to read (same as with
text
> written in all caps). The eyes respond faster to variations in black
on
> white pages than text that is all the same length. Also with justified
> text, you can get those bizarre looking stretched words or spaces to
> make the line the required length when there aren't enough words on
the
> line to fill it.

Some versions of justification can also generate those distracting
"rivers" of white space that occur when inter-word gaps align vertically
in larger paragraphs.

 - Kevin
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