[Sigia-l] text justification

[Tom Trottier]

While left justification is easier to read for paragraphs, I suggest 
centre-justifying text words or phrases in the middle of tables. This 
maintains the tablular nature and consistency separation from the 
columns to left and right. 

I would also tend towards left justification for the right-most column, 
and right justification for the left-most column if it's a single word 
or very short phrase. 

Columns of a relatively constant width like numbers are best put on the 
left or in the middle of a table, right justified, or perhaps centred 
for integers or phone numbers.

tOM

On Friday, April 09, 2004 at 11:00,
DC O <dco5 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> There's a bit on this (not data, but guidelines) at:
> http://www.webstyleguide.com/type/legible.html
> 
> - Diane O
> 
> 
> From: "morry" <morry at webproducers.org>
> 
> Anyone have any data showing increased readability on the Web based on
> text justification (left, right, etc.).
> 
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