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Subject:Re: Left vs Full Justification From:Paula Puffer <techwrtr -at- CEI -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 20 May 1996 21:13:15 -0500
David Jones Writes:
<snip>
>But if full justification is achieved by automatically adjusting spaces
between >letters (a somewhat less common technique), then the result is
much easier >to read--and tends to eliminate hyphenation, which also
affects readability
and
<snip>
>PageMaker5's output shows no sign of additional spacing between words. It
>must use microjustification?
You can do the adjustments in PM5 a couple of ways. First of all you have
the tracking function, it sets the space between the characters and the
settings range from "very loose" to "very tight" and "no track". You can
also Kern letters so that they appear tighter or looser and you can also
shift them up and down. The finest increment for kerning on Pagemaker is
1/100 th of an em.
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