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Old 07-18-2022, 05:39 PM   #79
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Originally Posted by bookman156 View Post
Small window is always 'my reader'. If it looks crap in what I have, then I go for something that doesn't, ie unjustified. I think on Kobo you can justify it if it comes unjustified, can't you?

On 'my reader', I see 'Alignment' is 'Not Available'. Are you saying that's because I specified it as align-left? But if I specified it as justified maybe they won't be able to change it to unjustified either. I don't know. All I can do is make what I think is the right aesthetic decision. And, as you say, few change their settings so if I supplied justified then some may hate it as much as I do because it isn't accomplished properly in the device.

Overall of course I prefer justified. Back when I did handset letterpress I would spend hours justifying lead type text by hand, and I must admit I spend just as long on H&J violations in InDesign these days.

In my view, there is nothing uglier than badly justified text.
Left justified look like a shoddily made eBook. All you have to do is put the overall justification in the body style. Then if the device/program being used to read it has the ability to change justification, then it will work.
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