(That’s the explanation I offer in MSCD 12.3.)Īn unjustified line of 12-point Times New Roman on letter-sized paper with one-inch margins (the standard setup at law firms) contains on average between 77 and 80 characters. I used to think that the problem was that by normal typographic standards, word-processed documents on letter-sized paper contain a relatively high number of characters. I’ve long wondered what renders justified harder to read.
If you wish to do a quick readability test of your own, here is a document with justified, one-inch-margin, 12-point Times New Roman text here is the same document with a ragged right margin. This creates an irregular margin along the right side of the text column.Īlthough as a general matter I have no problem reading justified text, I dislike it intensely in word-processed documents, including contracts, because I find that it makes them much harder to read. On lines that do not fully fill the measure (nearly all of them), any leftover space is deposited along the right-hand margin.
Ragged right A text margin treatment in which all lines begin hard against the left-hand margin but are allowed to end short of the right-hand margin. The conventional alternative is a ragged right margin. To achieve justified margins, a composition program must flex the spaces on a line, compressing them or expanding them. This creates straight, (usually) vertical margins on both left and right. Justified margins A text alignment in which the type in each line of a column completely fills the measure.
#How do you set a right margin in word 2013 manual
Here’s how James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography (2003), defines “justified margins”: In most printed text that I read, whether in books, magazines, or newspapers, the margins are justified.
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