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Originally Posted by shalym
Ok...so now I'm intrigued. I always thought that those were "a real typographic thing". Apparently they're not? So...what is the correct term for when all of the text starts at the left side of the page and the right side is ragged?
Shari
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Left-aligned, or RR (ragged right). If you think about it, "justified" means simply, that a line of text is made precisely equal, in length, to the lines around it (above, below). All the lines are justified, from one margin--whatever that is--to the other. If you could/did "left-justify" something, what would that mean? Or Right-justify? There's right-align, left-align, and justify.
Some programs, back in the day, used terms like "left-justify" and "right-justify" instead of "left-align" and "right-align," and heavens help us all, the APA even adopted the terms, so now people think that they're correct. I did point out that using that criterion, (that a "lotta people" think that something is correct), that "I could care less" must now be proper grammer meaning that one could not care less, but that point seems to have been lost. ;-)
Does that make sense?
Hitch