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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Yeah. And his reasons for that preference were just as spurious as the others we have heard in this discussion!
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That was not his preference, that was his recommendation for an "easy-reader" text. I'm no accessibility expert, so I'll have to trust the guy who actually is one on that
It also seems to be a quite widespread opinion.
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
The point, in reference to eBook construction, is that although you can code instructions to L-justify, some reading devices will ignore them, some users will be able to over-ride them. So don't fall TOO deeply in love with your preference :-) The same goes for margins, and paragraph spacing.
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Personally I don't care either way. I touch up most of the books I buy, but I don't bother to set a particular justification even when I have them open in Sigil. In the epubs I produce I try to leave as much as possible unspecified, so that the user can apply his own preferences. I'm certainly against forcing anything down the user's throat. You have to make *some* decisions, for instance I don't apply paragraph spacing, but use text-indent instead (except for first paragraph). Generally I tend to save space when possible to maximise efficiency on smaller displays.