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Originally Posted by jhowell
The default widow/orphan behavior has also changed recently. Enhanced typesetting in older software renders books with the equivalent of widows:1 and orphans:1. This includes Kindle for PC 1.26 and Kindle firmware 5.9.6. Newer software renders with a default of widows:2 and orphans:2. This includes Kindle firmware 5.12.2 and the latest iOS and Android apps.
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Strange that they would adjust this... Thanks for the updates.
I could see why 2 would be default Print-focused formats (DOCX), but not ebooks. Better if the screen gets filled with as much text as possible.
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Originally Posted by jhowell
The Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines (version 2019.1) lists "widows" and "orphans" in section 16.3.2 "Ignored Attributes" within Appendix B: "Attributes and Tags Supported by Enhanced Typesetting".
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Looks like it's been in there ever since that entire section got introduced in 2018.2.