Example here on the far right:

Same for me regarding Left (or better said, unsymmetrical) alignment.Cariboudjan wrote: ↑March 25th, 2022, 7:17 pm Personal preference, but Justified alignment always made me![]()
Definitely agree. Typographers know this works.Yincognito wrote: ↑March 25th, 2022, 8:04 pm Same for me regarding Left (or better said, unsymmetrical) alignment.![]()
Justified, Center or Left+Right combined are best for me. Professional typography seems to agree.
Too many blanks can look bad for Justified alignment though.![]()
That's why there is a (auto-)hyphenation.Yincognito wrote: ↑March 25th, 2022, 8:04 pm Too many blanks can look bad for Justified alignment though.![]()
Indeed, however I believe that one of the main goals of justified text was to avoid hyphenation in the first place, since it increases readability. There is also the situation in which you edit a word that falls on the margin and if you don't automate the process, hyphenation will be different, something one doesn't need to bother with when it comes to justified text. Not to mention that there are as many hyphenations as there are languages (not sure if there are languages that don't have hyphenation, as a side note) and both the auto and the manual hyphenation requires accurate knowledge of that language and its hyphenation rules. Basically, it's more inconvenient for the developer, for the reader, and for the editor, than the alternative. But yeah, it's a perfectly valid way to achieve visual symmetry, so in that regard it's as good as the text justification.
Wow, this looks very promising, from my part - I think increasing spacing a bit between characters of the same word where it's needed isn't that bad, considering that it might have the additional benefit of not requiring an exaggerate amount of space / gaps between words (and potentially creating "rivers" of blank space), something most folks seem to agree that it's a disadvantage of justified text. Plus, this is generally an "issue" only when the width of the text is smaller, since for wider widths the effect is reduced as there are more words to display on one line, and the effect is further reduced if choosing the W carefully.Brian wrote: ↑May 1st, 2022, 6:19 am I think something can be done in this area. Maybe.
Here is a simple test:
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There are 2 potential "issues", if you want to call them that.
FIrst, D2D seems to increase the spacing between characters within the same word in some cases instead of just the spacing between words. It isn't too bad, but there doesn't seem to be a way to just use the "normal" space between characters in the same word like you would think.
Second, it's difficult to calculate the correct width of the meter when no W is defined - so a width needs to be defined to make this work.
I'll look into these issues and hopefully come up with a solution.
-Brian