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Originally Posted by cybmole
fair points, but it not just me that needs to adjust.
I'd say that over half of my purchased books came with widows/ orphans set to 0 explicity in css.
so if that's a reasonable sample, there are millions of books out there that would stop working were the "bug" to be fixed
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Welcome to the world of horrible ebook code.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
a value of 2 is the next most popular. I have never, in my purchasing, come across a book with explicit coded values of "1" - do you have any ?
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2 is the default for a reason, and that reason's about as old as movable type. Commercial publishers generally don't use anything less (except in very strict cases) because having a single line of a paragraph on one page with all the rest of it on another is simply Not Done. It's one of the basic rules of printed media, and although you dislike it, that doesn't affect how the rest of the world works. (ETA: In printed media, it's usually less obvious because they'll tinker with the line spacing on that page...not much, but just enough that you don't notice the missing line.)
Go grab a random physical book - or newspaper, or magazine, whatever you like - and thumb through it. Look for paragraphs that do on paper what you want your e-reader to do. I'll give you long odds that you won't find even one, and that if you do, it's in an amateur publication or something with a low reputation for professionalism and quality.
THAT is why you don't see W&O set to 1. The value's valid, for people like you who want to "turn the feature off," but no professional outfit's going to use it as a primary setting. There are some isolated exceptions, but those usually relate to unusual layout contexts - title pages, included images, section dividers, something like that - that aren't just Normal Text. And in those cases, thanks to the aforementioned bad code, they usually set it to 0 because they don't know any better.