{"id":132,"date":"2005-11-21T07:26:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/11\/21\/whats-the-justification\/"},"modified":"2005-11-21T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T21:26:31","slug":"whats-the-justification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/11\/21\/whats-the-justification\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the justification?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526376--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the days of dot-matrix printers with fixed-width fonts, it was very popular to turn on the word-processor&#8217;s full-justification feature.<\/p>\n<p>The result was nice and neat right margins, but horrible mangling of the text, with huge spaces between words interrupting the flow of the reader.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, we have high-resolution printers, proportional fonts (with automatic kerning) and the ability for the software to automatically adjust the sizes of spaces between words &#8211; or even letters &#8211; to an amazingly precise degree of precision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and full-justification is so unpopular, it is treated with revulsion.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get the attitude to full-justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}