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In article <3d6bea14@news.povray.org>,
"Pandora" <pan### [at] pandora-software com> wrote:
> Hmm... I can see your point, but I can't see the problem - I have no
> problem with reading code in a variable-width font. Though I could never
> write code in a variable-width font...
I hate trying to read code in variable-width font...especially when
things are nicely lined up in fixed width font.
> URGH! I _hate_ that all straight lines down each side - I always want to
> mess 'em up a bit...
He said "approximately", he wasn't talking about having the words
perfectly aligned to both edges, but something like this message. Having
gaps at the edges for no reason would be terrible for readability. Using
a fixed width font makes sure you see what everyone else sees.
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"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> Having gaps at the edges for no reason would be terrible for readability.
>
That's just it - I don't think it is - I find it more, um, natural -
maybe it's just me...
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In article <3d6d6503$1@news.povray.org>,
"Pandora" <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote:
>
> That's just it - I don't think it is - I find it more, um, natural -
> maybe it's just me...
He said "approximately", he wasn't talking about
having the words perfectly aligned to both
edges, but something like this message. Having gaps
at the edges for no reason would be terrible for
readability. Using a fixed width font makes sure
you see what everyone else sees.
You can't be serious...I suspect you are trying to say something
completely different, because I don't see how anyone could think
something so random could be better than naturally flowing text.
Having a straight line down the left side is much easier to read, it
gives the eye a definite location to switch to after the end of a line.
Forcing the right side to be even hurts readability, because it causes
unnatural spacing in the words. Having the text centered is even harder
to read, since the eye has to search for the beginning of the next line.
Having both sides uneven would be the worst possible way, and I don't
see why anyone would bother to do it.
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"Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <3d6d6503$1@news.povray.org>,
> "Pandora" <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote:
> > That's just it - I don't think it is - I find it more, um, natural -
> > maybe it's just me...
>
> <snipped horribly random text>
>
> I suspect you are trying to say something
> completely different, because I don't see how anyone could think
> something so random could be better than naturally flowing text.
>
Yes, I am saying something different. I agree, the left side should be
straight, but Warp said "people usually write text so that the length of the
lines is approximately the same, thus getting approximately justified
paragraphs", i.e. the right hand side, though not completely straight, is
roughly straight - it's that that I dislike.
I dislike completely justified (with both left and right sides
completely straight) even more.
I just like text to be a bit more random than "approximately justified".
For example, as I write this, the ends of the lines of my first paragraph
are in a roughly straight line, and I want to put a couple carriage-returns
in to make them less uniform, but won't 'cos I know it'll screw things up
completely when OE comes to wrap them at 76 characters...
Of course, it could be taken to extremes, with hugely varying line
lengths, and that's just as bad, if not worse.
I'm not sure I could define the points at which it's either too random
or too justified, so don't ask...
Anyway, this is all getting way off-topic for p.u.p...
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