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Originally Posted by simonroyle
Hi MR's,
I've been doing a lot (too much) reading about formatting eBooks. One comment I hear from "professionals" is that;
"nothing screams amateur like ragged right text" What do you guys think? You're the readers - does it make a huge difference, and, more importantly, what do you prefer? |
This verges on the Holy War about whether you should use sans serif fonts for body copy.
The preference varies with the text to be displayed.
For instance, I tend to read fiction fully justified. But I'm a computer geek, and a fair bit of what I read will have segments deliberately unjustified, and probably in a different mono-spaced font, as well. They will be snippets of program code. Attempting to justify
that would be deadly, as there are all sorts of programs that rely on things like levels of indentation to be comprehensible.
The ebook viewer software I use makes justification user selectable, and it can be turned on or off as desired. So I'll be upset at anything that forces it. I may have reasons for wanting
ragged right margins.
In my case, leave it left justified, and I'll make the fix here in the reader settings.
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Dennis