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A common type of text alignment in print media is "justification", where the spaces between words and between glyphs or letters are stretched or compressed in order to align both the left and right ends of consecutive lines of text. When using justification, it is customary to treat the last line of a paragraph separately by simply left or ...
The manual indicates that writers should also "Use only one space if the text will have justified margins," and "If the manuscript has already been typed with two spaces at the end of every sentence, use the Replace function to change two spaces to one space throughout."
An example of the "river" effect in justified text. A widespread observation is that increased sentence spacing creates "rivers" [105] or "holes" [106] within text, making it visually unattractive, distracting, and difficult to locate the end of sentences. [107]
Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...
The article French spacing says that printing presses used wedges for spaces to automatically justify text. That should be here. Done Arbo 16:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC) Also, the example of justified text should be lorem ipsum, and set off from the main text of the article. Avoid self-references. — Omegatron 00:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins. When two pages of content are combined next to each other (known as a two-page spread), the space between the two pages is known as the gutter. [2] (Any space between columns of text is a ...
Avoid using smaller font sizes within page elements that already use a smaller font size, such as most text within infoboxes, navboxes, and references sections. [g] This means that <small>...</small> tags, and templates such as {} and {}, should not be applied to plain text within those elements. In no case should the resulting font size of any ...
A carefully composed text page appears as an orderly series of strips of black separated by horizontal channels of white space. Conversely, in a slovenly setting the tendency is for the page to appear as a grey and muddled pattern of isolated spats, this effect being caused by the over-widely separated words.