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Originally Posted by Notjohn
As a reader, I have no problem with widows & ophans. I would much rather continue reading from one page to the next, as I do in a print edition, without encountering a short page. If I am reading a print edition from a reputable publisher, the book designer is going to tweak the line spacing, or perhaps ask the author to rephrase, rather than have pages of unequal length. I appreciate that the OP in a sense is trying to accomplish what book designers accomplish, but Kindle at least is going to make a hash of it. (And ending a paragraph with the last complete sentence is going to make a new paragraph, isn't it? Does the carry-over get an indent, and how is that accomplished? And what if we're talking about a paragraph that is quoted speech -- who adds the beginning quotation mark?)
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FWIW:
And I'm not saying that this is good or bad, BUT, we are finding a massive shift in print from perfectly aligned pages without any widows and orphans to a mindset that doesn't seem to care about w/o, telling us to ignore the w/o issue in order to square the page. {shrug}
I guess that those of us who still find it vexing, to see w/o and unsquared pages are just old fogies. :-)
Oh, and the widows/orphans thing, in eBooks--in about 50-70% of them, it doesn't work. If you're on iOS, fine (or Kobo, b/c they've mooched a lot of the iOS rendering engine, which in turn had originally moooched ADE...), or Readium or Azardi, but after that, rotsa ruck.
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