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For accessibility purposes (and regular reading), it would be so much better to drop the justified text. Ragged edge is the way to go!

https://www.boia.org/blog/why-justified-or-centered-text-is-...

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Not necessarily:

https://heyman.info/2023/fill-justified-text-on-the-web

Perhaps someone can publish a paper to arXiv that provides a meta-analysis. But still there doesn't seem to be a clear reason to justify it, given that almost all internet text is not justified.

To me one of the exciting aspects of HTML is that we can theme the same article in different ways, tailored to individual preferences - just swap in a different CSS file.

Having a two-column theme, or left-aligned vs justified themes, could be workable in the long run. I hope that we get to see some browser extensions modding the pages before too long.

The reason for the current justified text is that it is the default aesthetic for a LaTeX-based article, and a lot of authors expect it.

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