On 2023-12-01 12:23, Daniel wrote:
This refers to a surprisingly brief discussion:
https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg181030.html
Basically, the idea was to move "Use justification in LyX work area"
from document settings to pref.
I take it the one reason to do so is that the setting is an individual
preference. I for my part don't like reading text where justification is
used without proper line-breaking and hyphenation that avoids huge
spaces and rivers. But I can see that this is still a personal preference.
So, when reading someone else's document I would like it to show up with
my preferred setting and I wouldn't want to change that person's
preferred setting of the document (and maybe forget to reset it).
(I have not seen specific reasons against making it a preference.)
Any chance this might be done after all?
Daniel
This was not to complain about LyX line-breaking. I think, given it's
general limitations, it's quite good. But it is no LaTeX output. And the
nice breaking is one reason I prefer reading LaTeX documents.
(I also think typographers generally agree that unless larger spaces and
rivers can be avoided, justification is to be avoided. I take it that is
why it is not used on the web. Maybe a point for avoiding it by default
in LyX as well.)
Daniel
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