Comment by mnkyokyfrnd
1 day ago
rivers, contextual word splits, compound noun splits, awkward pauses, there is so many downsides to mindless text justification. Only editorialised and hand crafted justified text is nice. Everything else ends up forceful and ugly.
Strange that online it fell out of favor, because text justification was the default for centuries. It's still around in most PDFs though, e.g. in research papers.
When there was a person physically typesetting every line, the justification wasn't generally "mindless"
Is there a difference between the rules TeX uses and HTML renderers?
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I suspect the print typesetting has largely been automatized for several decades.