Re: freeware to justify text
"Alan K." <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 10:42:47 -0400
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On 7/6/26 9:52 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 7/6/2026 9:42 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
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>> Wordstar used to format text this way.
>> I dunno how you describe this format.
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> Justification!! Related to "Justice"? :)
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> I don't think Thunderbird could do that...
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> wordstar margin insert space - Google 搜尋
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=wordstar+margin+insert+space>
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> Typographic alignment - Wikipedia
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment>
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I always knew it as right-left-justification.
But if you notice that section of text he highlighted there are no extra spaces to force
the r-l justification. It just happens to work out that way.
That's how most justification is done. Wider spaces applied along with hyphenation where
needed helps too.
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Alan K.