Talk:Typographic alignment

Justification confusing?

The justification section is confusing. I had to read it a few times before (hopefully) figuring out what it meant. It should now be self consistent, but I don't have a better way to convey the information. but that is why i like it lol know what mim sayin

Use of alignment in the article

I just edited the article to remove the alignment of the text for each section. It doesn't seem encyclopedic to change the formatting just to demonstrate the different types of alignment. --Bando26 (talk) 05:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

I suggest this article should be merged with Justification (typesetting). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.236.8 (talk) 08:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Better examples needed

The example of "flesh left" has a pretty uneven left margin, due to crazy capitals and lots of indenting. A screenshot of flush left, flush right, centered, and justified in a modern word processor would be better. -- Beland (talk) 21:57, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

problems with justification

The article mentions that left-aligned is used widely on the web (and indeed it is default for wikipedia as well). But then in the problems with justification section, only software for making printed documents are mentioned. From some sources it seems there's a difference between user preference in printed and electronically displayed material. Eg. https://cuttingedgepr.com/should-you-use-left-aligned-right-aligned-or-justified-typesetting-in-printed-publications/ mentions a study about printed docs, users having huge preference for justified. This one https://designforhackers.com/blog/justify-text-html-css/ mentions that web browsers (as opposed to the typesetting software mentioned in this wiki article) are not capable of all of the special justification methods and thus create crude result. A language expert friend also told me that they found difference btw print and online. These things should be mentioned here (but I'd prefer someone with more knowledge in typesetting writing it, I may use not the best terminology and maybe someone knows of more research that could be cited or more knowledge about how browsers display etc). Hoemaco (talk) 06:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is centered text hard to read?

Is there any justification (pun not intended) for the assertion, "Centered text is considered less readable for a body of text made up of multiple lines because the ragged starting edges make it difficult for the reader to track from one line to the next"? A shapely left margin may offer better tracking guidance than a uniform one, because the latter lacks landmarks.

The sample offers no insight because the paragraphs are too short to get lost in and the language is unlikely to be read fluently.

I suggest the assertion should be removed unless supporting data can be cited. Mdmi (talk) 02:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]