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Old 07-13-2014, 05:54 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by arspr View Post
So widows=2 is not working in any way. It could be like widows=3 working (but orphans=2 at most because of the ending in 1836). With widows=2, the very first line in 1837 should have been rendered at the bottom of 1836 where there's a lot of room for it.

But OTOH we can also assure that widows=3 is not the used setting because 1836 with its just TWO starting trailing lines should be impossible...
I don't think that is exactly what widows:2;orphans:2; means.

widows:2; means that at least two lines of the paragraph remain at the top of a page.
orphans:2 means that at least two lines of the paragraph remain at the bottom.

So if a paragraph has five lines, then widows:2;orphans:2; allows it to be split either as 2+3, 3+2. Your pictures show it being split as 2+3, which is correct.
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