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The second of those is interesting. Most of the lines are right-justified, and just a few aren't. It looks to me as if it's right-justified the lines except for
by gjm11 14y ago
The second of those is interesting. Most of the lines are right-justified, and just a few aren't. It looks to me as if it's right-justified the lines except for when it can't do so without introducing an unbearable amount of whitespace, in which case it's fallen back to ragged-right.
(You can see it isn't just ragged-right where most of the lines happen to end in the same place; compare the spacing on, e.g., the first two lines.)
I don't think I've ever seen anything typeset that way before.
- bobthedino 14y agoI think the reason you've not seen anything typeset that way before is because it's ridiculous to do it that way! You end up with an awful mix of fully justified and ragged-right... to my eye this makes me expect new paragraphs where there are none, for example. It's such a shame that Amazon just doesn't seem to care about good typesetting practice. It's maybe just not something Amazon views as a "barrier to sale", but as Gruber says, the Kindle only has to do one thing well, so why shouldn't it do it fantastically well?
- tghw 14y agoGood point, I hadn't even noticed that. I suppose it's better than full justification, but still odd that they don't just do ragged right.