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Originally Posted by jonathanc
It doesn't seem to work why on my 2011 Kindle and anyway surely widows and orphans can't be completely gone with adjustable text size?
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Setting it to 1 removes blank space caused by removal of widows and orphans. Setting it to 2 increases likelihood of blank space due to moving part of a paragraph to the top of the next page to avoid an isolated line of the start or end of a paragraph.
So with 1 you have the maximum occurrence of a widow or orphan. It means the bottom of the page can have as few as 1 lines of the next paragraph, or the top of the page can have as few as 1 line from the previous paragraph, so there is no "wasted space". That's why a setting of 0 has no meaning and is interpreted as 1.
Changing the margins, font face, font size and line spacing only changes where paragraphs are broken across a page boundary. If you have variable blank space at the bottom of a page you are avoiding (removing) small widows & orphans. If you never have blank space, then some paragraphs will have 1 line widows or orphans.