Entertainment / Literature / Typographic Justification: In printing and typing, the placement of letters and spacing so that the end or beginning of each line is perfectly aligned with one or more margins on that page. A 'left-justified margin' (like on this webpage) has the text on the left-hand side aligned perfectly with the left margin and a 'ragged right' on the right-hand margin, where a varying amount of blank space finishes each line. A 'right-justified margin' is the opposite. It has the text on the right-hand-side aligned perfectly with the right margin and a 'ragged left' on the left-hand-side where a varying amount of blank space appears before each line. A 'perfectly or fully justified text' has both the left- and right- hand edges of the text perfectly aligned with the margins. This arrangement becomes possible only by slightly altering the spacing betwen every word and every letter in the line or by making minute adjustments in the font size from line to line. A. C. Baugh suggests that one factor (among many) leading to so much variety in Renaissance spelling was the nature of the printing press. Because early printers liked to perfectly align their pages, they would take advantage of various spellings, double-letters, and optional letters to adjust each line's length.
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