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Originally Posted by DNSB
Whereas I prefer left-justified.
I find justification to be almost painful to read on devices/apps that do not implement micro-spacing/micro-justification/microtypography. KOReader, for instance, has it's ability to tweak between word spacing and between characters in a word spacing but comparing to Microtype with LaTeX, it just lacks that finished look. A river runs through it comes to mind.
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I can’t stand those rivers of white space…
I’ll take left justified all day long… when my eye gets to the end of the line it automatically goes to the next line. There is no concern about any “wasted space”. If you are a person who likes hyphenated words
, and has a device that presents them well (in your reading language) that space is non existent anyway.
There also isn’t any “premium” or “professional” look to a
justified text like there used to be when typographers had to manually set the type to fill the whole line … it’s just a css setting, or click of a setting, now. The only “value” to
justified text is to differentiate a section from the surrounding text. eg. A snippet of a magazine article embedded in the story.