atw: Re: Old habits
- From: "bja" <moo-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:24:04 +1100
This brings in the additional question of why do we use fully justified text
when there have been a number of studies that indicate a slightly better
readability using left-justified, or 'ragged right' text.
That way, the spaces between words are uniform and playing with spaces
becomes unnecessary.
:)
Cheers,
Bruce
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Trussler
Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2008 10:08 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Old habits
Peter,
I agree,
The problem is now that Word makes a mess of fully justified text.
And one solution is to make the inter-sentence spaces larger to counter the
intra-sentences spaces.
Bob T
2008/10/31 Peter Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Petersen:
You should know that someone using your name wrote:
> I came across this via the MVPS site, at:
> http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/rules_onespace/index.html
>
> The principle seems to be - use one space between sentences when using
proportional
> fonts.
>
Hmm. It starts off sounding relevant, and then, for me, fades into
irrelevance. Now, I'm one for simple language, but an assertion that two
spaces at the end of a sentence in proportional font makes the text "look
too chopped up" seems a bit short on precision, and doesn't match with my
experience in looking at proportional font text. (And/or my idea of what
"chopped up" is supposed to be.)
And then the example of justified text (as displayed in my browser), already
acquires some filler spacing results in inter-word spacing +within+ the
sentences in excess of that which would be the case with two spaces in
non-justified text. So the alleged "problem" here does seem to have more to
do with justification within each line than with inter-sentence space usage.
-Peter M
peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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