Thread: Bug of the long paragraph
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Old 05-20-2013, 07:51 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Ripplinger View Post
If this is the same bug I keep seeing constantly, it's not just long paragraphs. I've seen separate short paragraphs kicked to the next page for just 3 lines, then continue on to another page (and there's nothing in the css to cause this, no different style from the rest of the text such as a forced page break or a space after the last line).

I also see a lot of ending paragraphs in a chapter for only 3 lines that gets kicked to the next page, when the previous page has 3-4 lines left to fit it in easily. And again, there's nothing special in the code such as a forced blank line after the last line or anything different.

This happens frequently in every book, it's not a rare occurrence. And yes, it's very annoying and needs to be fixed.
All that sounds like the widows and orphans in the CSS is not set to zero. The device uses 2 or 3 as the setting for them. That means that if a paragraph starts near the bottom of the screen, and less than that number of lines of the paragraph would be left on the screen, the whole paragraph is shifted to the next screen. I usually edit my epubs and change the CSS to set these as zero. With that, the screen is filled.
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