{"id":15608,"date":"2008-06-18T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2008\/06\/18\/justifying-myself\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:44","slug":"justifying-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2008\/06\/18\/justifying-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Justifying myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inside pages of my books are just Word documents. &#8220;But you used to do design,&#8221; I hear you scream (please stop screaming), &#8220;how can you do typography and page layout in a <em>word-processing<\/em> program! Heretic!&#8221;<br \/>Actually, Word does all the typography I need &#8212; styles, sections, page numbering. The one thing I could never get right, though, which always irked me, was justification.<br \/>The books I produce from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hame.land\/shop\/Product_list.html\">my micropress<\/a> all have &#8220;ragged-right&#8221; justification, with a straight left margin but lines that end wherever they happen to end on the right-hand side. Most novels have &#8220;full&#8221; justification, meaning that the text lines up straight against both margins, with the words balanced between them.<br \/>The problem I had with full justification in Word is that, not always, but every once in a while, I&#8217;d get a line that ended like this, which I considered unreadable and ugly:<br \/> Today I finally found out how to fix this: just hit ENTER after the line. Voila, fixed!<br \/>Turns out it was only happening at the end of a chapter because I didn&#8217;t put in the final carriage return; the next line was just a page break starting a new chapter, which messed up Word&#8217;s sense of how to deal with the line, since it never ended properly.<br \/>I&#8217;m printing out manuscripts of <em>Finitude<\/em> in book form, and am thrilled to be able to produce them using <a href=\"http:\/\/bbb7ae4c-b948-4243-8604-e56e395ee3d6\/The%20inside%20pages%20of%20my%20books%20are%20just%20Word%20documents.%20%E2%80%9CBut%20you%20used%20to%20do%20design,%E2%80%9D%20I%20hear%20you%20scream%20(please%20stop%20screaming),%20%E2%80%9Chow%20can%20you%20do%20typography%20and%20page%20layout%20in%20a%20word-processing%20program!%20Heretic!%E2%80%9D\">a much quicker process<\/a> because the book is short, and now I can have properly justified paragraphs, too!<br \/>Isn&#8217;t that exciting? (Humour me here.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1077\/justifying-myself0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inside pages of my books are just Word documents. &#8220;But you used to do design,&#8221; I hear you scream (please stop screaming), &#8220;how can you do typography and page layout in a word-processing program! Heretic!&#8221;Actually, Word does all the typography I need &#8212; styles, sections, page numbering. The one thing I could never get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}