sahunt@warwick.UUCP (Steve Hunt) (07/03/86)
In article <2217@umcp-cs.UUCP> mark@umcp-cs.UUCP writes: >There has been discussion here some time in the past few months >regarding both the readability of CRT displays and why justified >text is bad. A recent article in Human Factors ("Readability of >Computer-Generated Fill-Justified Text", Stanley Trollip and Gregory Sales, >Human Factors 28(2), April 1986, pp 159-163). >combines studies of both to show that justified text on computer displays >is read more slowly than unjustified text on computer displays. > >-mark >-- >Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: +1-301-454-7817 >CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark >USPS: Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Interesting... what are the acceptable limits of raggedness? What I mean is, how much raggedness should you allow before you give up and hyphenate the offending word? I prefer a ragged margin to justified text, but hyphenated words seem to slow me down much more than justification. Have there been any studies of the effects of hyphenation on reading speed? -- Steve Hunt | Network address | Home address ---------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------- Computer Science / \ "The Silo" Warwick University / "Wel-come ho-o-me!" \ 15 Molesworth Avenue Gibbet Hill Road / "On-our-way-'ome." \ Stoke Green Coventry CV4 7AL / \ Coventry CV3 1BU ENGLAND / ...mcvax!ukc!warwick!sahunt\ ENGLAND / Preferred ...mcvax!ukc!daisy!cstnbap \ (0203) 447765 --------------+-----------------------------------------+---------------------