diff --git a/content/common/kwant.css b/content/common/kwant.css
index 59f0ae06d00947673d88473413b8db34ae333620..6b9fd7c047fda0fb438e984ca84da30e7dbbee18 100644
--- a/content/common/kwant.css
+++ b/content/common/kwant.css
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ body {
max-width: 60em;
margin: 0 auto;
font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif", Georgia, serif;
+
+ text-align:justify;
+ -webkit-hyphens: auto;
+ -moz-hyphens: auto;
+ -ms-hyphens: auto;
+ -o-hyphens: auto;
+ hyphens: auto;
}
ul.navigation{
diff --git a/templates/base.mako b/templates/base.mako
index c67617e299456c79960c59e70a9440d028aec7ac..03bcb9166234c028335dd48c1f00bd716751c6ab 100644
--- a/templates/base.mako
+++ b/templates/base.mako
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />