Fully justified text is nearly impossible in monospace: the spaces cannot be distributed evenly and hyphens draw the eye. A late-1990s Super Metroid guide by someone called rs1n solved it anyway, for 17,000 words, every right margin ending on a letter with no doubled spaces anywhere. The FAQ explains: “What program did you use to justify the text? None. I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.” Marcin Wichary’s short post shows why that is astonishing.
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