From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification
Date: 05 Oct 1999 16:13:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87670l7v5p.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard's message of "04 Oct 1999 21:40:29 -0400"
François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Let's take the simultaneous left-right justification. It has been
> demonstrated that for fixed width fonts, it hurts legibility and
> decreases reading speed.
Does somebody have more info about this? I've heard the claim that
justification decreased legibility of texts written in fixed-width
fonts many time, but I've never seen an explanation on why that is so,
or a reference to research.
(Note that I am not disputing the claim -- in fact, I agree with it.
I'm just wondering about the underlying mechanisms involved.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-05 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 17:51 Daniel Monjar
1999-09-09 21:55 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-09 22:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-09-10 15:35 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 16:24 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-10 16:32 ` Emerick Rogul
1999-09-10 18:29 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 19:01 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-12 5:16 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-13 9:17 ` Michael Piotrowski
1999-09-13 18:32 ` Florian Weimer
1999-09-13 21:46 ` Mick Gower
1999-09-15 22:13 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-09-19 2:56 ` Greg Stark
1999-09-25 0:47 ` Ken McGlothlen
1999-10-05 1:40 ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1999-10-05 22:49 ` Russ Allbery
1999-10-06 0:45 ` David Coe
1999-09-14 12:33 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-14 8:24 ` Tibor Simko
1999-09-11 1:44 ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-11 7:06 ` Graham Murray
1999-09-12 5:05 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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