{"id":33785,"date":"2021-09-30T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33785"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T20:45:43","slug":"manual-full-justification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/30\/manual-full-justification\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual Full Justification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgemmell\/status\/1441497498573545478\">Matt Gemmell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgemmell\/status\/1441497498573545478\">\n<p>The most amazing thing I&rsquo;ve ever read is a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefaqs.gamespot.com\/snes\/588741-super-metroid\/faqs\/10114\">guide to the SNES game Super Metroid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>See how virtually all the paragraphs are like solid blocks on their left and right edges? In typography that&rsquo;s called &ldquo;fully justified&rdquo;. In word processors etc, it&rsquo;s accomplished by evenly distributing extra spacing throughout lines of text, and also by hyphenation.<\/p>\n<p>But in that guide, it&rsquo;s not done with hyphenation or variable spacing. It&rsquo;s monospaced text in a monospaced font.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gemmell: The most amazing thing I&rsquo;ve ever read is a guide to the SNES game Super Metroid. [&#8230;] Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting. [&#8230;] See how virtually all the paragraphs are like solid blocks on their left and right edges? In typography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-09-30T20:45:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"8b46795a-bf88-49aa-aab7-06812f5fb1c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-09-30T20:45:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ai0Z5Wr-ISaqqtwaBL1-xwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1639,418,295,554,1197],"class_list":["post-33785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-easter-eggs","tag-game","tag-history","tag-nintendo","tag-writing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33786,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785\/revisions\/33786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}