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Originally Posted by Anak
This widows/orphans issue doesn't bother me that much. Personally i think that the default value of 2 is a bit overkill for ereaders as it breaks/moves (imho too frequently/unnecessary) sentences to the next screen while there is still enough space to display them.
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No!!! If there's still enough space while respecting the widows and orphan settings, it's broken!!!
The worst case is when your paragraph has n (let's say 3 as the commonest example) lines and widows (2) + orphans (2) = n+1 (4). Then, of course, there's no way that paragraph can be split at the end of a page. And you can get n-1 (2) blank lines at the bottom in the worst scenario. Or, as you can have more available space it could nearly look like having n (3) blank lines. I mean imagine that the available space you have at the bottom is enough for 2.9 lines...
But, if the space looks like n+1 lines (4), then it's BUGGY.
(Or as I posted if in a 5 line paragraph, there's a blank space of more than 1 line and 3 lines in the second page).
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Originally Posted by Anak
It is nice to read that I'm not the only one who edit the widows and orphan properties to it minimum value of 1.
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Of course, as I previously posted, widows and orphans cause more blank spaces at the bottom of the pages which are ugly. But widows and orphans are also ugly themselves. It's a trade-off between two different kind of ugliness..,
It's a matter of personal preferences.
But the discussion here is that RMSDK is BUGGY when applying widows and orphans despite if you like/use/avoid/despise or not that property/feature. And it shouldn't...
(Exactly as, IMO, ACCESS shouldn't have directly killed it. Kobo could have set it to 1 as default, if they thought it was the prettiest setting, but they should have left the final decision to the ebook publishers or users).
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Originally Posted by Anak
The end of chapter bug bothers me much more and is still present in fw 3.5.0.
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Originally Posted by treadlightly
I posted an example here. |
Wow! I've never seen it myself in my old Sony PRS-650. But nevertheless I'm ALWAYS on sideloaded kepubs since I bought my AuraHD...