17 Nov
2009
17 Nov
'09
3:17 p.m.
On Nov 17, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
On 11/17/09 2:59 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
Having a global "Presentation" preference in the administration to
easily allow making paragraph justified could be interesting, WDYT?
I think it might be overkill (and would add unnecessary complexity).
Especially since this can be done easily using a SSX, right?
I haven't seen anyone asking for this so I doubt we need it right now.
Thanks
-Vincent
Last but not least, rather than "text usually looks good" I'd like
to see
an
explanation + examples of pages showing how justifying text will
make XWiki
easier to use for its users (will it make reading faster? will it
make
pages
look more consistent and thus easier to grok by users?). Until
then I'm not
convinced it's a good change.
To summarize: in most cases justify won't bring much value and
it's less
flexible and causes more issues than align left. I won't change my
mind
unless I see how it makes reading more effective on a production
wiki with
"real life" text.
It's not a matter of which one is "easier to use for its users" - the
alignment of the text is more of a layout integration / consistency.
Justify is usually more formal and yes looks great in prints and
large
texts. Since XWiki is a platform and doesn't not means just large
quantities
of text, I agree we can make it back to left aligment for the web,
because
apparently left align is more spread in this area.
How about having p justify aligned when we print the page or export
it (to
pdf for ex)?