Re: Justified versus ragged right? (take III)

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Gutenberg used RJ text, but from what I can see in on-line pictures of 
his books, he hyphenated with abandon. Also, he put punctuation that 
fell at line's end (including hyphens) to the right of the column edge.

So RR is battling against an ancient tradition, probably derived from 
styles established by scribes.

About 50  years  ago  my  father's
newspaper used the Varityper  A20,
and all the text was justified  by
stretching on the right, not quite
like I've done  here  (using  more
spacing between words) but instead
more space between  letters.  Thus
everything was denser to the  left
and airier to the right. Dad could
have saved effort  by  setting  in
ragged right, but that's not usual
newspaper style. 50 or  500  years
back, right-justification was  the
rule.
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