From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25675 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Coe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: 06 Oct 1999 00:45:20 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <863dvpco67.fsf@chia.someotherplace.org> References: <199909152213.SAA72350@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> <87670l7v5p.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163018 15265 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:16:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA13659 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB25845; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:47:06 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 05 Oct 1999 19:47:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA08865 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:47:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from moe.coe.woodbine.md.us (moe.coe.woodbine.md.us [204.245.154.7]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA13632 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:45:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from chia.someotherplace.org (chia.someotherplace.org [209.70.95.3]) by moe.coe.woodbine.md.us (8.9.3/8.9.1/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id AAA14626; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 00:45:31 GMT Original-To: Russ Allbery In-Reply-To: Russ Allbery's message of "05 Oct 1999 15:49:36 -0700" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25675 Russ Allbery 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. ;-)