On 11/9/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Plus, you need to set some sort of threshold; a line
which only has a
few words on it ends up
looking very spaced out, like this.
Not possible to specify an explicit threshold on our side
(<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop>). Browsers
will of course pick some sensible value, but that traditionally
applies only to lines immediately preceding a line break, not lines in
the middle of text. Those can consist of even two words, I think,
separated by nearly a line of whitespace, if sufficiently long words
came before and after. Again, that's what hyphenation is for, but no
browser I know of hyphenates in real time as of now.