Justify text in work area does not work as expected

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Thu Jun 25 19:54:49 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-06-25 19:34, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Le 25/06/2020 à 19:28, Daniel a écrit :
> > > By the way, non-greedy algorithms for text justification, i.e. those
> > > that do not just put as many words into each line as possible
> > > (starting from the first) but try to reach greater equality between
> > > length of spaces, are to slow, right? Both Writer and Word seem to
> > > use only the greedy algorithm. (Pages does some weird stuff by
> > > spacing out characters within words.) So, I guess that's the case. I
> > > was just curious.
> > 
> > I do ot know whether they are too slow, but they are definitely more
> > complicated. I am not sure that the gain is worth the effort.
> > (TeX does this and much more for the final output, though)
> > 
> > JMarc
> 
> Yes, maybe it's not worth the effort. I just remembered that I set all my
> LyX documents to left aligned because, at least previously, the gaps between
> words were just to wide to be nicely readable. I don't remember exactly
> anymore what was the main cause of the gaps. I might try using justification
> again to see.

I haven't been following this conversation, but I also just turn off justification. For me though it is more because when I type a letter I don't want all of the letters on the line to be shifted.

Scott
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