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Originally Posted by Notjohn
This is a great thread, thanks! But I have an ignoramus's question about Jon's CSS:
>It also sets widows and orphans both to 1 otherwise, it doesn't look so good on screen
What's a "1" in the case of widows/orphans, a line or a word or a character? I'm guessing a line, so what does it do with 1 line, pull a second one to the next page with it?
I can understand why a widowed line might strike people as odd, but I've never seen anything wrong with the orphan. I accept them in print editions regularly, while I'll tweak spacing or revise text to prevent having one or two lines alone at the top of a page, maybe even three lines for a left-hand page.
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Widow
A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. Mnemonically, a widow is "alone at the top" (albeit of the family tree but, in this case, of the page).
Orphan
A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. Mnemonically, an orphan is "alone at the bottom" (albeit of the family tree but, in this case, of the page).
A 1 turns them off so at the bottom of the screen, the pages are mostly the same length without a gap. It looks better on a Reader. With a pBook, you can adjust thinks to make it look better. With a Reader, you have no such adjustments.