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Re: OT: Rant



On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:35:44PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| dman wrote:
| 
| >On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:26:57AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| >| On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
| >| > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right 
| >| > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a 
| >| > bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up.
| >| 
| >| For those who don't grok this, look at the top of any man page:
| >| 
| >| man(1)                  Manual pager utils                 man(1)
| >
| >Ahh, ok.
| >
| >This is not what "left justified" or "center justified" or "right
| >justified" means.  Those terms apply to the entire line (more often
| >though it applies to an entire paragraph).  Actually, "justified" is a
| >separate term and means that both the left and right edges of the the
| >paragraph are even.  The others are properly "alignments", but common
| >use has labeled them "justification".
| 
| Ah. Bad use of language on my part. You're right.

Quite understandable, having now seen the text the RevealCodes showed
you.

-D

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One man gives freely, yet gains even more;
another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
        Proverbs 11:24



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