Enhancing paragraph justification across multiple paragraphs

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:

• receiving, for a plurality of justified paragraphs of text in a digital document, an aggregate spacing metric and a spacing metric for each justified paragraph;
• and
• for each justified paragraph of the plurality of justified paragraphs, modifying at least one spacing characteristic comprising:
• a step for determining a set of spacing characteristics modifications based on a difference between the spacing metric for the justified paragraph and the aggregate spacing metric;
• a step for determining an optimized penalty value associated with a subset of the set of spacing characteristics modifications;
• and
• modifying the justified paragraph using the subset of the set of spacing characteristics modifications associated with the optimized penalty value.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
• receiving, from a client device, an indication to enhance a justification of a selection of a plurality of justified paragraphs of text in a digital document;
• determining spacing metrics for each justified paragraph of the plurality of justified paragraphs;
• determining an aggregate spacing metric for the plurality of justified paragraphs based on the determined plurality of spacing metrics;
• for each justified paragraph of the plurality of justified paragraphs, modifying one or more spacing characteristics based on a penalty value;
• and
• outputting, to the client device, the modified justified paragraphs.