Re:Building a personal website in 2021
by inamiyar on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:40PM
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Iirc the reason browsers don't have knuth-plass justification is because it runs in O(n^2), but even so my research tells me justification reduces retention because your mind retains the "shape" of ragged text. I don't have the article on hand but if I find it I'll add it later.
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Re:Building a personal website in 2021
by bruce343434 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @05:26PM
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Do add, because citation is needed.
A bit late but [1] shows equal comprehension between justified and ragged-right but much faster reading speeds with ragged right (post-stroke patients in Russian). [2] shows slightly faster reading speed with justified text but less comprehension on a delayed test (also in Russian). [3] has no empirical data but cites articles and claims comprehension is equal between the two formats but ". Poor readers, however, read unjustified text more quickly than justified text."
I would say it's not overwhelming, but I'd go with ragged-right to be safe.
[1]: tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-2/tb119veytsman-justify.pdf [2]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-2/tb116akhmadeeva.pdf [3]: https://benjamins.com/catalog/idj.8.2.03sti