On 2020-03-26, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: >> 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.
That was always an interesting freshman programming homework problem. But you're right, nobody in their right mind would actually want to generate real output that way. Ragged-right is far, far better than using fixed-width font justified with extra spaces scattered in. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
