Re: [gtk-list] Re: Label layout

[John Kodis <kodis jagunet com>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 1997 at 04:43:05PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:

> - I think GTK_JUSTIFY_FILL has been hijacked. That is, it should
>   only specify full justification. (Actually, the whole thing is
>   a (commonly accepted) abuse of terminology. Text can be set:
>  
>   Justified
>   Flush left/ragged right 
>   Flush right/ragged left

There's also the "jagged left *and* right, but centered" style.
Programmers seems much more fond of this style than do typographers,
FWIW.

>   See Robert Binghurst's _Elements of Typographic Style_)

Interesting reference.  I'd be interested in what the folks who've
been setting type for hundreds of years have learned from their
studies.

> - I don't think any extra space should be added between sentences.
>   This is a holdover from Victorian typographic horrors and from
>   bad typewriter manuals.

I much prefer the extra space after most stop characters.  Perhaps
it's my bad typewriter training showing through.

-- John Kodis.