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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This actually isn't an issue. It's the way it is in ADE. All versions of ADE default to a widow/orphan of 2. The only way to override that is to edit the CSS and put in the values you want.
I always put in values of 0. I don't care that it may not be grammatically correct. I just care that I use the most screen space I can and that most page ends end on the same line.
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I'm not sure I understand. I don't want to have to edit CSS for every book I read, I don't even know how to do that. I just want the reader to display a book the way it should be. That means that when there's paragraphs spanning several pages, the reader shouldn't suddenly decide to make one paragraph fill only half a screen.
If there's some CSS setting that causes this (and I wonder which fool ever created *that*), at least the GUI of the reader should have some option to ignore it. (Called, for user friendliness' sake, something like "don't split long paragraphs" or "don't bother about orphans widows".)
When I say the option was created by a fool, by the way, I mean I genuinely don't understand it. Orphans/widows are supposed to be a typographer's nightmare: an orphaned single line at the top of a page, oh no, we should prevent that!
Alright, I get that. Although I don't find it very troublesome myself.
But in this case the remedy is to have pages where the text suddenly stops half page, whereas the author has never intended for there to be even a blank line: as though *that* isn't a typographer's nightmare!
I really don't get it. I don't get why the bug is there, I don't get why nothing is being done about it, and I don't exactly get how I can remedy it myself. (Plus I don't really want to manually edit all my books.)
Guess I'm just clueless.