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Originally Posted by Abecedary
You guys are funny. All this talk about why justification on most readers is terrible and not a single one of you experts has mentioned the single largest factor -- most readers don't have hyphenation algorithms (the H in H&J -- there's a reason why they go together). Being able to move blocks of 2, 3, 4+ letters to short lines would make a huge difference in the word spacing problem.
Also, many of you seem to be hung up on kerning. While kerning would come into play in some instances, tracking would have a much larger influence on the overall appearance (kerning refers to spacing between individual letter pairs, while tracking refers to the spacing over whole lines or blocks of letters).
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Not sure why you are saying "many" since there seem to be only two or three of us on each side of the discussion
Anyways, I thought the justification issue was implied. My main complaint is not enough words on each line, leading to very inconsistent spacing between words for fully justified text, and of course hyphenation would improve that immensely.
I'd still prefer to use smaller text though.