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Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:39:47 +0100

Hi Doug,

> But it soon became old hat and people migrated back to ragged right
> margins, which may not look as neat from afar, but also seem to be
> easier to read both because of even spacing and because the variable
> margin provides distinguishablility to help a reader track vertical
> position on the page.

Right.  That's why I have `--nj' in the MANOPT environment variable.
I'm surprised more distributions don't turn off justification by default
as most users are unaware that man(1) might have a configuration option.
Colin?

(I also have `--nh' to turn off hyphenation too as I'd rather the word
not be split for ease of reading than maintain an ideal line length.)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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