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Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes
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Doug McIlroy |
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Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:00:39 -0400 |
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>> [randomly distributed padding] was even worse because it
>> led one to perceive false phrase boundaries at the wider spaces.
>> The text became maddening to read. Only then did I try alternating
>> left- and right-padding, which has stood the test of time.
> Huh. I wonder what it would have looked like if you weighted the padding
> to happen more often after punctuation, taking advantage of the phrase
> boundaries.
Definitely worth a try. There's even an inadvertent example in the
first line above.
Doug