Fully justified text has clean left and right edges.
But Butterick is right that hyphenation reduces the awkward white space and breaks that can appear in
fully justified text without hyphenation.
If you still are unsure about using
fully justified text with hyphenation, you can find comfort in the fact that both the United States Supreme Court and the Solicitor General use this type of justification in their opinions and briefs, respectively.
For example, I anticipate that it will be a long, slow battle to get law firms to finally ditch
fully justified text in favour of left - justified («ragged right») text, despite countless readability studies that show that fully - justified text that is not professionally typeset (in other words, that is generated by word processing software) is much more difficult to read than left - justified text.
Our national full - justification of text nightmare is over... Amazon has finally ditched
fully justified text on the Kindle.
Not exact matches
text is
fully justified — the line down the right - hand margin is clean (except for where the paragraphs end).
For example, in traditionally and professionally printed books, large bodies of
text are formatted with
fully justified margins (as opposed to ragged right hand margins).
Unlike the Kindle, you can sideload fonts, adjust the boldness of the
text, and set
text alignment to left or
fully justified.
Filling in web forms and editing
text fully justifies the physical keyboard and track pad.
James (# 12), I was going to respond that the
text you quoted seems to me to be
fully justified given the upper - end (and maybe mid-range) IPCC scenarios, but then I looked at the press release and found that the full quote from Andreae was really making just that point (and not making a claim for his results):
The
text for each job was
fully justified with no more than four lines.