On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:57:58AM -0700, Mike Sleger wrote: > On Nov 13, 2011, at 3:46 AM, Murray Strome wrote: > > > If a paragraph fits on a single line and almost fills it, using force > > justify looks better. > > THAT is the case I was trying to remember! I too have used force justify in > both Word and Scribus because when you have multiple paragraphs, some > multi-line and others single-line, it usually looks better if both the left > and right margins are aligned for all paragraphs. When a single-line > paragraph is short, normal justify looks better, but when it's just a bit > short of a full line, then force justify looks better.
Many years ago (30+) when I had access to a Triple-I phototypesetter I put together an application that did simple page layout and formatting. One of the user-settable parameters was a threshold on the length of the last line of a paragraph, expressed as a percentage. Final lines exceeding the threshold were justified, the others not. The Scribus choices "Align Text Justified" and "Align Text Forced Justified" would correspond to 100% and 0% respectively. -- Ted Powell <ted at psg.com> http://psg.com/~ted/ The best way to get to know a system is to tinker with it. --leb
