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Originally Posted by arspr
Maybe you are right, but I don't feel that is the spirit of that CSS formatting setting. Those widows and orphans are here in order to help the rendering looking prettier, and I don't think those huge unnecessary blank spaces are a pretty thing...
So I suppose the correct behaviour is my strict one... Nevertheless I'm no HTML/CSS expert at all, so you could be fully right and I fully wrong, even being a complete absurd standard in that case.
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The issue I have with the way that ereaders use widows and orphans is that they were intended for paged media such as printed pages and not for computer style displays.
I've also found that some ereaders use a default of 2 for widows and orphans while others use a default of 3. In a book, either does look better but on a display, using widows and orphans does not help with readability -- in my opinion. My quick and dirty solution is to set widows and orphans to 1 in the css stylesheet.
Regards,
David