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Originally Posted by HarryT
There is no way of moving "sentences" from one page to another. Widow and orphan control is for moving entire paragraphs between pages.
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Minor nit in that widows and orphans are for controlling how many lines of a paragraph can be left at the bottom of a page or at the top of a page and have little to do with moving entire paragraphs between pages. With widows and orphans set to 2, a minimum of two lines would be required at the end of a page (orphans) or at the start of the next page (widows).
In one example, you have a paragraph which takes 8 lines with 7 at the bottom of the display and 1 carried over to the next page. A setting of widows=2 would force another line to the next page splitting the paragraph 6 lines/2 lines.
I've seen some references that reverse widows and orphans from the definitions I've used but à chacun son goût.