From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 09:15:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160509091508.080cda45@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <319cee74-3e8a-b2ba-619c-3b37d3991f0b@wxs.nl>
On Mon, 9 May 2016 10:51:23 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> > Wasn't in obvious that I was joking?
> > (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it
> > is".)
>
> well, its more like challenging us (in fact i remember messing a bit
> with this fill-to-end-of-line-with-rules stuff that you see in ugly
> official documents but then decided that lawyers should use
> justification instead)
It would be a better exercise to compose one's text in verse using
words that fill all lines nicely eliminating entirely the need for
justification. Maybe this should be an exercise for the upcoming
Context meeting?
My entry will consist entirely of four-letter words...
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 7:41 Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-09 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 8:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-09 8:51 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 15:15 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2016-05-09 15:32 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2016-05-09 8:53 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 9:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
2016-05-09 9:33 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 10:02 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 9:23 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2016-05-09 9:31 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 10:15 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2016-05-09 12:13 ` Hans Åberg
2016-05-09 10:35 ` Ulrike Fischer
2016-05-09 10:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
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