On 2020-03-25 16:09:24 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > On 3/25/20 3:52 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > If anything, I think it was fixed-width fonts which contributed to the > > decline of hyphenation: With a fixed-width font you can't get a proper > > justification anyway, and if your right margin is ragged, hyphenation is > > much less important > > Actually, fixed width fonts are easy to justify, you just add additional > space between words through the line.
Yes. It's easy to do it wrong and impossible to do it right :-)
(BTDT)
The problem is that you can only insert an integral number of spaces und
the number of spaces you need to insert is rarely a multiple of the
number of gaps between words. So you get uneven spacing, which looks
horrible.
hp
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