Typophile

On rags and writing styles

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When deciding whether to rag or justify text, how many of you take writing style into account? I’ve found that ragged text can be great for work without a lot of long words, but writing that features longer words can be a real beast to rag well, even with the occasional hyphen. Conversely I find that anything with a lot of proper nouns is a pain to justify because they cannot (usually) be hyphenated. Am I on the right track here?

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