Justify text in work area does not work as expected

[Daniel]

On 2020-06-25 21:54, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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

That one can better anticipate how the text around the cursor shifts 
while typing, sounds like a good reason to turn off justification.

By the way, does any one know why this setting is a document rather than 
an editor setting?

Daniel