Why do these large spaces appear sometimes in texts? Is there a name for them?
>>25092864It's because of formatting each line to have the same width by spacing the words differently, which is called 'justified text'. You're using an e-reader, not a printed book, so it's automatically formatting the text to the screen width based on the font size you've chosen.
>>25092864Bad justification. Maybe if the font wasnt set to size 72 there could be more than 5 words per line.
>>25092864I've seen one source refer to it as a 'creek'. A 'river' is when there are multiple across lines which create visible sinuous vertical shape of whitespace.>>25092895 answered why. Your image doesn't make use of hyphenation either, which could decrease the gaps.
Welcome to the fascinating world of font autism. When spaces are aligned vertically it's called a river, and when there's a strong concentration of spaces like on pic related I can't remember how it's called. Probably a lake. Fixes include hyphenation, and using variable word spacing and variable letter spacing
>>25092864It's how the glowies send secret messages. I'd stay away from it though. Eventually you'll start mumbling to yourself, which will cause the cars to come, which will turn into threats and attempts at blackmail, which will then cause strange people to pop out of the woodwork to imply they are there to help you with that thing that nobody knows anything about which they can't tell you. Not sure what happens after that.
>>25092864The text is justified but words aren't allowed to be split across a line. It is bad formatting. They should just hyphenate the last word of a line if it doesn't fit.
>>25092864blind retard reduce your font size
