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Agreed! I wrote a blog post about this a couple years back.[1] A few things I think are going on: - layout and hyphenation algorithms on the web are worse (or

Agreed! I wrote a blog post about this a couple years back.[1] A few things I think are going on: - layout and hyphenation algorithms on the web are worse (or often disabled!) - the lines are often too long - the site's margins aren't as strong as with print design These factors combine to produce the mess you're describing. I've spent so much time reading justified text in print that I do like it in general. But I think until places like NYT or Medium adopt it on their websites, it's probably not up to snuff on the web. (edit: formatting) [1] https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/web-justified-text/ https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/web-justified-text/

JadeNB 2y ago
> I would like to take this opportunity to complain that LaTeX iS cApItAlIzEd lIkE tHiS. In case you were complaining because you don't know why, rather than because you knew why but don't like it, it's LaTeX because it's Lamport + TeX; and it's actually not really TeX but TEΧ (that last letter is a chi), which, when typeset properly (see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/TeX_logo.svg/200px-TeX_logo.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Te...), was meant specifically to show off TEΧ's layout abilities. (In fact Lamport got into the spirit of it, and the real name is LATEΧ, again carefully typeset: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/LaTeX_project_logo_bird.svg/480px-LaTeX_project_logo_bird.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/La... . The common stylization LaTeX is just a convenient ASCII representation.)