On 2007-08-14, Andrew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Georg Dahn wrote: > > > > > Andrew Myers wrote: > >> Yes, but it would be nice to have it work cross-platform. As long as > >> there's an internal text formatting feature, why not make it do a > >> good job? > > > > It does already a good job. It depends on what you want it to do: if > > you'd like it to behave like par, then you prefer just a different > > behavior than the current. But don't call it better as long it is > > better > > for your purpose only. The behavior of par makes sense in many > > situations, but the current makes sense, too. I would not like to > > exchange the behavior of gq formatting, for example, but I would > > like to > > have the same behavior of par additionarily to the current. > > > > Best regards, > > Georg Dahn > > Actually, I think I would make the strong claim that what I am > talking about is not just some personal preference, but a fairly > universal one. All serious text formatting systems try to make line > lengths equal (without introducing additional line breaks), because > this is known to aid readability. The TeX formatting algorithm is one > widely used approach. I can't see what generally held notion of > goodness the current formatting optimizes for except algorithmic > simplicity. But perhaps someone can explain why they prefer > linebreaks to be inserted greedily?
I believe the studies that have shown fully-justified text to be easier to read than left-justified (ragged-right) text used proportional fonts properly typeset on a printed page. Vim uses a mono-spaced font. Attempts to fully justify mono-spaced type generally look pretty bad--you can't adjust the spacing within words and the spacing between words is adjustable only increments of m spaces. Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
