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> for every fully justified line there’s a left-justified one with the same content Justification makes sense when you can hyphenate words, that way you can pa
by kowdermeister 8y ago
> for every fully justified line there’s a left-justified one with the same content
Justification makes sense when you can hyphenate words, that way you can pack more letters, otherwise the whole word would break into the next line.
- Someone 8y agoYou can hyphenate ragged lines, too. And that’s not frowned upon by typographers (at least not by all of them). https://practicaltypography.com/hyphenation.html https://practicaltypography.com/hyphenation.html: ”In left-aligned text, hyphenation evens the irregular right edge of the text, called the rag.”