Last Paragraph line when using full justification stretches too much

Question

One thing that really bothers me is the way that the last line of a paragraph will stretch out over the whole width of a page when you are using full justification, even when the line is only one or two words. This is simply unacceptable from an esthetic point of view. Does Pages 2 fix this annoying behavior—which really makes full justification practically unusable—or is that still broke?

Answer 1

Hullo jzents:
I've run into this too, although only when pagination
occurs: i.e., you go to the next page. Haven't struck
it otherwise, and frankly had barely noticed it until
I changed to Pages 2. However it's still there. I
haven't struck it enough yet to find a workaround -
although you might try inserting your cursor in front
of a paragraph or line break - or checking invisibles
to see if you can spot what's going on when it
happens. Trouble is, before I get to that, the
problem's usually gone. To cheer you up a bit though,
it's a failing of other programs too, and I often
notice it in my local newspaper where it doesn't get
cleaned up at all!
But seriously, it's a bug and needs a fix. Be sure to
report it to Apple.
And if anyone's got a surefire trick for dealing with
it in the meantime, I'll be trying their answer too.
On the other hand, if it were something you could
live with through a method to avoid it - then why
isn't it in the help screens?
Cheers.
You told me what I did not want to know, which is that it is not fixed in Pages 2. It does not happen in some other WP that I have used, so it is very disapointing that Pages fails in this regard. Cheers!