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Re: Does hyphenation make reading hard for ESLers?
Subject:Re: Does hyphenation make reading hard for ESLers? From:Chris Hulin <chrish -at- SPIDERNET -dot- COM -dot- CY> Date:Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:46:58 +0300
Kent Newton wrote
>I avoid hyphenation, even when writing for native speakers. You don't
>gain that much paper real estate by hyphenating, and it usually slows
>down the reader.
Yes, but with justified text you get rivers of white, especially in narrow
measures, and ragged text is very ragged. I think visual attractiveness
contributes to readability.
BTW what is ESL? Educationally Sub L?????
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