I'm exceedingly guilty and starting to get called out on OT posts and hijacking in many other threads. But it's my nature to ramble on from a few thousand years of interesting (to me at least) experiences that I'm compelled to pass on like a typical Dad figure.
So I'm going to move those sorts of things here. Follow the topic if you wish - no need to clutter up the thread with single word posts just to make sure you get notified when I commit another post here.
Appreciated.
First one moved from the Site Support Bug thread:
Nowadays I use FrameMaker most of the time at work, and the usual editors at home.
You're certainly correct that "Align Left" is the predominant term in the last 20 years. Somehow I was infected with the thought (in some desktop publishing programs) that "full justification" is needed for what could be adequately described as "justification", and those older programs use "left justify" to mean the same thing as "left align". LaTeX uses the environent flushleft and the command \raggedright to deliver what they called "Left Justified Alignment." If you didn't override the defaults, all paragraphs in LaTeX would be fully justified.
Just think of me as the guy in the green eye shade. I suspect there's nobody here who's ever operated a Linotype. But I've been astonished before.
So I'm going to move those sorts of things here. Follow the topic if you wish - no need to clutter up the thread with single word posts just to make sure you get notified when I commit another post here.
Appreciated.
First one moved from the Site Support Bug thread:
Been thinking about this for a while. *I'm* insufferably pedantic most of the time as well. Been into typography since junior high, when the local newspaper (owned by my Dad's good friend) had a Linotype machine and generated hot lead slugs and kerning for full justification was done using wedges between the words. First real manuals I produced were using a UNIX editor (vi) and the LaTeX mark-up language to generate Postsript code to drive an early laser printer (1982). It was not in any way WYSIWYG.IllogicTC said:You mean align left. Justify is where the words and letters are spaced to always fill the maximum space per line.
I'm pedantic sometimes, don't mind me.
Nowadays I use FrameMaker most of the time at work, and the usual editors at home.
You're certainly correct that "Align Left" is the predominant term in the last 20 years. Somehow I was infected with the thought (in some desktop publishing programs) that "full justification" is needed for what could be adequately described as "justification", and those older programs use "left justify" to mean the same thing as "left align". LaTeX uses the environent flushleft and the command \raggedright to deliver what they called "Left Justified Alignment." If you didn't override the defaults, all paragraphs in LaTeX would be fully justified.
Just think of me as the guy in the green eye shade. I suspect there's nobody here who's ever operated a Linotype. But I've been astonished before.