By Tammi Day and Laura DeCarlo
How shall we align our words to ensure a pleasing presentation? Does “ragged right” look ragged or right? Is that clean, sharp right edge worth gaps between words? How do we justify our choices in justification? Most of us grew up looking at newspapers, books, and magazines with smooth edges of text down both the left and right margins, so we became indoctrinated that this is the “professional” way. Yet when full justification is applied in some situations, we end up with “rivers of white” in the block of text. So what’s a typesetting-conscious writer to do?
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