On 3/26/20 3:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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 > > > Back in the day it was FREQUENTLY done, in part to show off, anyone could type with a typewriter and get jagged right margins, but with a computer you could get justified margins with uneven internal spacing!! Status!
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