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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
What is this widows and orphans thing that everyone is talking about? Did they fix those huge blank spaces where the next paragraph is started on a new page rather than filling up the rest of the current page? So far I'm not seeing any real reason to upgrade from 2.5.1 (unless they've fixed the PDF refresh).
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Widows are lines left at the top of the next page when a paragraph goes past a page boundary, orphans are lines left at the bottom of a page when a paragraph stretches over two pages. Since they are considered undesireable, the widows and orphans setting says how many lines must be left on a page. If you use a setting of 3 for both, you will never see those two line fragments at the top or bottom of a page. In exchange you will see blanks lines at the bottom of a page when lines were moved to the next page. Setting widows and orphans to 0 prevents this but at the cost of possibly leaving a single line at the bottom of a page or a single word at the top of the next page.
Regards,
David