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KB0039: Does Jutoh support justification?

Yes; it just doesn't show up in the Jutoh editor. You can set the alignment to Justified in the properties for a named paragraph style, via the Project Properties dialog (click Edit on the toolbar). Then apply this style to one or more paragraphs.

Text won't appear justified within Jutoh but it will appear justified in ebooks where supported. Different readers support justification in different ways:

On non-Kindle platforms, the situation is bit more murky and varied, but if you feel that on balance your book should be justified, then explicitly set the alignment to justified, which will make for the fewest surprises, even if not all ereaders will then be able to adjust the alignment for those customers who prefer left alignment.

Note: From Jutoh 2.28 (released January 31st, 2015) up to Jutoh 2.53, Jutoh used the CSS property 'text-align:initial' for indeterminate justification. This wasn't enough to trigger defaults in some ereaders, so from Jutoh 2.54, the 'text-align' property is omitted for indeterminate alignment wherever possible, except where inherited alignment must be suppressed (for example indeterminately-aligned paragraphs within a box in a centred paragraph). In this case, 'justify' is used for Kindle (since this is the default alignment on Kindle) and 'left' for HTML and Epub.


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