Re:Using hyphenation and justification on the web
by ugh on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @04:56PM
(#1670071)
It’s not so bad if you use hyphenation appropriately. Which, as the submission explains, is sort of doable on the web but has serious downsides.
What you would really want is a fancy justification algorithm like the one InDesign uses (it takes into account not just the current line but the whole paragraph and it avoids, among other things, white rivers in the text) with lots of knobs to turn.
That’s currently just not possible on the web which is why justification is often not such a good idea even if you can find workarounds. But it’s certainly no crime. (All books, newspapers and magazines do it.)
What you would really want is a fancy justification algorithm like the one InDesign uses (it takes into account not just the current line but the whole paragraph and it avoids, among other things, white rivers in the text) with lots of knobs to turn.
That’s currently just not possible on the web which is why justification is often not such a good idea even if you can find workarounds. But it’s certainly no crime. (All books, newspapers and magazines do it.)