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I had no idea that full justification was such a time-killer. I guess
the Loyal Knights of Ragged are _justified_ after all.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hart
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:53 AM
> To: TECHWR-L List; Sean Brierley
> Subject: Justified versus ragged right? (take II)
>
> In practice, what I do is play with the hyphenation
> and justification settings when I first define the paragraph
> styles, and apply those globally before I begin layout. If
> there are any recurring problems, I edit the styles and try
> again until things are basically good.
>
> Next, as I proofread the layout (on the screen initially, in
> print finally if the manuscript will be published in printed
> form), I manually override any automated decisions that
> simply didn't work.
> InDesign, for instance, has some nutty notions about where to
> break words, and I haven't made time to edit their
> hyphenation dictionary or create a custom dictionary
> containing all my own word breaks. Some day when I have a few hours!
>
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