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pjungwir
on Feb 8, 2013
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Balancing text for better readability
For subtitles and ledes, or really anything larger than the main body text, I actually prefer the <br/> solution. It's important not only to break in a pleasing shape, but also to break at grammatically-sensible points. So it's better to say:
Take the blue car to the shop
vs
Take the blue car to the shop
or
Take the blue car to the shop
pjungwir
on Feb 8, 2013
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These latter two examples are worse because the first splits up the subject and the latter splits up the prepositional phrase.
dfc
on Feb 8, 2013
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That was his/her point.
Skoofoo
on Feb 9, 2013
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Both comments were written by the same person.
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