From jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Wed Apr 03 22:17:17 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jimc@math.ucla.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 4 Apr 2002 06:17:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 61309 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2002 06:17:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Apr 2002 06:17:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bodhi.math.ucla.edu) (128.97.4.253) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 2002 06:17:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (bodhi.math.ucla.edu [128.97.4.253]) by bodhi.math.ucla.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12795 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:17:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:17:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Updated materials In-Reply-To: <20020404001000.GA30617@piclab.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jim Carter X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810565 On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > > (Robin Turner ): > > Looks good - congratualations to Nick! Only one gripe- it's nice to see a > > PDF version, but it would be better if the lines were justified rather than > > ragged right. The same is true of PS output from the teX version. > > Ick. Why? The publishing industry has been moving away from > justified text for years, since ragged-right text is almost always > more readable. Why bring it back? Hmmm. Of the technical journals I come into contact with, only Communications of the ACM is ragged right, and I find it harder to read. Looking at my own running text, I think it looks a lot better justified than ragged right. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)