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Subject:Re: Using ragged right in technical publications From:Buck and Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- WF -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 16 Sep 1997 05:05:44 -0500
The *ragged right edge* rule was placed in our rulebook before proportional
character spacing-- when justification was done solely by word spacing
[achieving right justification by changing the spacing between words].
Justified text was really ugly in those days.
Now, with full character spacing used for justification, the rule, like
many (two spaces following a period is an example) is archaic.
Get it changed in your company? Lots of luck.
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Sent from a very busy extra bedroom in our house,
sometimes also called InterAmerican Publications.
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Buck and Tilly Buchanan
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