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On 7/7/26 03:59, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 7/6/2026 10:42 PM, Alan K. wrote:
On 7/6/26 9:52 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Justification!! Related to "Justice"? :)
I don't think Thunderbird could do that...
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.
Thanks. I am still wondering whether Thunderbird
or the old Netscape could justify texts like
Wordstar.
I don't remember Wordstar justifying text, but it would be unsightly in
a monospace typeface anyway so I wouldn't have done it. Alignment
(left, center, right) is different and I'm sure I remember centering
titles. Justification was possible with Word Perfect (it had
proportional typefaces) along with a lot of other improvements -- but I
always felt guilty for abandoning Wordstar.
When I really wanted stuff to look nice I used Ventura Publisher, which
always needed to be beaten into submission. Really expensive, maybe 10 installation floppies. The marketing people had unlimited budgets so I
traded some juicy gossip for a copy. You could only save your work
within VP, which was a monumental nuisance and perhaps contributed to
its demise.
There's a linux word processor called joe which has a WS emulator called jstar. I might try to use it, but I'm now hooked on pico for simple
things and libreoffice when I want letter-quality results.
And just to show how old I am, I did some hand-justified promotional
handouts with my IBM Executive typewriter that looked like they were
typeset.
I am still impressed by Wordstar 3.3/4.0 doing
it properly. :)
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Cheers, Bev
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the
American Public." -- H.L. Mencken
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