Re: [Lynx-dev] [PATCH] Improving the appearance of justified text

[Bela Lubkin]

Andrew Belov wrote:

> Here is a minor patch for the EXP_JUSTIFY_ELTS feature. In its current
> implementation, spaces in justified lines are concentrated near the
> beginning of each line - this doesn't look neat IMO:
>
> Lynx  is  the  text  web  browser.  This is the top level page...
>
> The patch changes this to achieve a uniform spacing:
>
> Lynx is  the text web  browser.  This  is the  top level  page...

Hmmm, well, it looks differently horrible.  ;-}

BTW, I believe Lynx conflates EXP_JUSTIFY_ELTS with wanting
justification.  That is: if you configure the build that way, the option
is on by default in the resulting binary.  This doesn't seem right to
me.  The configure option should just enable the flag; people who want
it on at runtime should have to say so.

Also, at least in the past if you built Lynx without EXP_JUSTIFY_ELTS,
the -justify command line flag made Lynx abort.  I ran into this while
writing a script that used Lynx to dump HTML to ASCII -- I put in
"-justify=off" and everything was happy until it ran into a Lynx built
without the option.

Let's leave the option parsing on even when the option code is disabled.
That makes the command interface more uniform.

>Bela<