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Old 05-19-2020, 11:30 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by jonathanc View Post
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?
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.

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