On typographical matters, I generally seek advice from two sources:
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographical Style
James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography
Bringhurst, who generally prefers justified lines in setting books,
has this to say about the occasions when ragged right m
John Kane wrote:
It depends :) I think that there was some research in
the 1980s suggesting that ragged is easier to read.
I think, though, that it may depend on the width of
the paper. I was having the devil of a time reading a
research proposal my boss had handed me. It is
justified and t
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
Rich, You're talking about character protrusion, but the package does font
expansion and much more. Bottomline: text looks better. I can think of few
reasons not to use it.
Eran,
The mechanism doesn't matter to me. The results do. And it does add th
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way
toward reducing hyphens and improving fit.
If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal
character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right
margin. While under magnificati
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Eran Kaplinsky wrote:
I strongly recommend the microtype package, which goes a long way toward
reducing hyphens and improving fit.
If that's the package I think it is, it actually places the terminal
character either a very small distance beyond or inside the actual right
--- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting:
> Just the Facts". The
> intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed
> and staple bound by the
> customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than
> indentation to separate
> parag
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> My vote is full justification.
Ditto. LaTeX defaults to that for a reason.
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book
document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something
doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin.
Steve,
I have two approaches to solving the overfull ho
Hi all,
I'm writing a short book called "Troubleshooting: Just the Facts". The
intention is to make it an Ebook that can be printed and staple bound by the
customer, if so desired. I use skip rather than indentation to separate
paragraphs, and I think I'll probably keep it that way.
Right now