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> You can fit more characters per line in a justified layout. no you can't

• joshuapants 12y ago
  Kerned properly, you absolutely can. Please don't make authoritative statements if you've only ever justified text by highlighting a paragraph and having the computer do it automatically. editing to be a bit more descriptive: Here's an example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ahM5C.png http://i.stack.imgur.com/ahM5C.png With hyphenation and acceptable kerning, the justified text has more characters per line.
  • falsedan 12y ago
    justification refers only to adjusting intra-word and -letter spacings, your example shows hyphenation only
    • joshuapants 12y ago
      My example shows, respectively, justification with hyphenation, justification without hyphenation, and left aligned type. You can keep backpedaling, but I have demonstrated that you can have more characters per line with justified text.