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Comment by lproven

    4 leading spaces, is that right? Let's see...

    I used to write all my online posts like this in my early days of having
    own personal email address. My primary email is from 1991 and I used it,
    and DOS-based tools, to go online from 1991 until the late 1990s. At 1st
    I ran DOS tools from a floppy, then on my own PC with OS/2 2, then under
    Win95, then under NT 4. Gradually all the tools that were current at the
    time became Windows-based, so I switched. It just became too hard to not
    use Windows, and that meant proportional fonts, and that meant that folk
    couldn't see that I was writing fully-justified text... so I stopped.

    If this works (it looks all right in the editing window to me) then this
    is the first time in a decade that I've tried writing justified text. At
    the time when I did it constantly, it barely slowed me down. It helps if
    you have a good vocabulary and you can just substitute longer or shorter
    words on the fly.
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