Looking at the rest of the sections, they aren't much better. It's important to stress that you should be hyphenating as little as possible. Like, the part about hyphenation, it's fine to tell people to use a dictionary to see where to hyphenate, but some people for some reason hyphenate on the next line, or hyphenate in such a way that it kills readability in favour of text shape, there are some horrid examples of this. The rest of it is too reductive to even be useful. Many fonts are crafted in such a way that metric kerning is the intended use, a blanket "just use optical kerning" is silly. The amount of auto justification for leading depends on the font, and some conmpanies even recommend specific leadings for each of their fonts. Your part about text size shows far too small font size for your "good" example. Text boxes are good actually, more efficient, and anything you might want to do with point text can be done with text boxes, but text boxes have the added benefit of being able to reshape them and actually improve shaping within seconds. It's almost impressive how almost everything you said about typesetting is not only bad advice but in many cases the opposite thing that you should do.
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