Re: Using ragged right in technical publications

["M. Dannenberg" <midannen -at- SI -dot- BOSCH -dot- DE>]

Beth Agnew schrieb:

> Wow! I really ran Mike Dannenberg's bell with that CAL Technologies
> Ltd.
> study! :-)

Not really, actually, there was hardly any foam round my mouth and my
hands stopped shaking almost immediately, after I'd smashed up my
office.

> I guess I should have used more quotation marks and emphasis in the
> "study"
> I quoted to show that the results were suspect, (or at least not
> widely
> reproducible) but I didn't want to, um, scare anybody. ;-)

You didn't make it very clear in your post that you too thought this
"study" was a maybe a tiny bit suspect. Of course I agree with your
basic promise, that different things work for different audiences and
different types of documents. That's why we pay a graphics designer a
lot of money to design or layouts, it's his job to think about that kind
of stuff, not mine.

See y'all tomorow,

Mike

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Mike Dannenberg
ETAS GmbH & Co.KG
midannen -at- si -dot- bosch -dot- de

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