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Old 08-14-2014, 12:06 PM   #356
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Originally Posted by Anak View Post
If any member of the Kobo development team reads this topic: consider to change the default values for widows and orphans to 1. Yes, I'm aware that is not in line with the standard but it improves the overall behaviour of your readers.
In your opinion.

Others, like myself, are perfectly happy with the occasional blank line at the end of a screen if it means not having one line of a paragraph on a different screen from the rest of it; it's easier for us to read the paragraph as a whole that way. It's the way tree-books have been done for decades, if not centuries, and the only reason you don't notice it there is that there are subtle typographical tricks that can be used to camouflage the missing line. However, those tricks don't work unless the layout is fixed and immutable, which is why they don't work on ebooks or websites.

Frankly, the occasional blank line isn't worth breaking standards over.
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