Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes

[Doug McIlroy]

>> [randomly distributed padding]  was even worse because it
>> led one to perceive false phrase boundaries at the wider spaces.
>> The text became maddening to read. Only then did I try alternating
>> left- and right-padding, which has stood the test of time.

> Huh. I wonder what it would have looked like if you weighted the padding
> to happen more often after punctuation, taking advantage of the phrase
> boundaries.

Definitely worth a try. There's even an inadvertent example in the
first line above.

Doug