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Old 07-16-2014, 02:57 PM   #163
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
....what about all the big professional puiblishing houses who are explicitly using widows: 0; orphans: 0 then ?
As I said, sloppy code that ought to be fixed. (See also all the ebooks that set Regular Text to "small" or somewhere around 90% when it should be "medium" or 100%. There's no excuse for that, and it's far more common than weird W&O values.) That said, I'll defer to DNSB's survey; this does not seem to be anywhere close to as common as you claim.

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
As for valid, epubcheck 3.0.1 validates widows and orphans with a value of zero as valid code.
Then epubcheck is either not looking at CSS or has a bug in that respect. I suspect it is the former.

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Originally Posted by arspr View Post
Let's summarize:

If you don't like what w&o do and you want to "disable" them, the correct and official way is setting them to 1. 0 is frequently used even by some publishers, and it usually works as intended, but nevertheless it is not "officialy" supported, so if I were you I'd use 1.
Spot on.
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