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Unjustified #12

Open tgraham-antenna opened 5 years ago

tgraham-antenna commented 5 years ago

In the spirit of 'Justified is evil', would you consider formatting the text as ragged right? (Abstracts are already ragged right.)

Also, the current text fits 120-130 characters per line, which is quite a lot. (I, too, am inclined to disable hyphenation when the lines are that long just because it's a long way to scan back to find half a word, which gets harder if consecutive lines are hyphenated.)

sgmlguru commented 5 years ago

I would. I do agree with justified being evil.

@AndrewSales, any views?

AndrewSales commented 5 years ago

I'm open to suggestions and have no strong preference. Noting that XML London's had 2-col justified, XML Prague 1-col justified, AFAICT.

tgraham-antenna commented 5 years ago

See https://twitter.com/dalapeyre/status/1137659806288924672 ff. for Peter Flynn and I on the historical justification justification.

Justified or non-justified single column isn't a big deal. Non-justified two columns is harder to, ahem, justify because you tend to want to have the uniform right-edge to make the columns obvious so you don't accidentally read across the two columns. You can, of course, put a rule down the middle of the column gap. Two columns makes for shorter lines, which helps some people.

I'm not suggesting two columns for these proceedings because: no-one has given any attention to sizing graphics for a column or a page; some of the figures are unnumbered; and there are a few "in the figure below:", etc. (where the figure is often on the next page instead of below).