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Old 05-13-2011, 01:37 AM   #1
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using widows & orphans
when reading on my Sony e-reader, I observe some level of widows & orphans control i.e. the reader will leave a line or 2 of whitespace at foot of a "page" in order to not split off the last few words of a paragraph with a page turn.

I found this disconcerting at first & would be checking my epub source code for extra linefeeds, but I've slowly gotten used to it.

my questions here are

1. Do folks take the trouble to set explicit widows & orphans controls in sigil CSS & if so, what settigns do they favour ( I have seen code, but rarely)

2. is the Sony doing something that is standard for epub readers or is it a Sony specific "feature". I have no been able to find documentation for it and am not sure exactly what logic it is using.

3. what is best practice - control this in software ( CSS) or leave it for e-reader firmware to manage ?
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