Re: highlighting and fontification

[David Coe <david.coe@someotherplace.org>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Left-right justification, when done with word choice and careful attention
> to line length, should be as legible as normal ragged-right text.  Perhaps
> slightly more legible because it's aesthetically pleasing; that's a matter
> of personal taste.  When it is done by inserting more white space into the
> text, however, it disrupts the normal flow of inter-word spacing, which is
> highly distracting for the reader's eye.  We're used to inter-word spacing
> being uniform throughout the text; extra spacing stands out, causes longer
> pauses in reading, and sets off as specially significant breaks which have
> no special meaning.

Very nice.  I think you should contribute the lisp code that did that nice
formatting for you!  It's not easy to do unless you have a lot of patience 
and flexibility in composing what you write, and don't mind rewording some
things and/or inserting irrelevant phrases about zebras and elephants just
to bring your word boundaries to the appropriate places.  ;-)