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Originally Posted by DyckBook
Perhaps what @stellatus was meaning is when a subchapter header ends up just at the bottom of the page with no room for the following text. If my interpretation is correct he (and I) would like that header to be shunted to the next page where it would appear with the following text.
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Yes and pretty much everybody here understood that. Even our resident curmudgeon, who on occasion has difficulty separating what he likes versus what's "right" for the world at large.
What has been raised here are several things:
- Many eReaders don't/won't support page-break-after:
- Even in those instances that do, some readers (count me in on this) don't like the appearance of what happens with PBA, because it's constantly and I mean, constantly misleading, thinking you're at the end of a chapter or section, etc. and shortening the available reading space on your screen, (as if maximizing that doesn't matter, mind you), and
- other considerations.
eBooks aren't print. If we had all decided, way back, to make ebooks a less-handy version of print, hell, we could have stuck with ePDFs, so that all the niceties of print could be preserved, without any of the functionality of eBooks.
Amazon does this widows/orphans thing, in KFX and it drives me nuts. I mean,
nuts. I'm
constantly seeing foreshortened pages and I think "yup, end of chapter" and then I realize, sentence breaks off, or nope, it just continues on the following page.
If I had seen this same type of formatting, 5 years ago,
I'd have reported it to Amazon as BAD formatting. Now, it's not "bad" formatting--it's Enhanced Typesetting, "saving me" from OMG, reading WIDOWS AND ORPHANS!!!
It's kludgy and there is, to the best of my knowledge, no "good" way to implement it without simply sacrificing reading space to the pixel-fairies. You either mislead the reader, each and every time you do it (or the device/firmware does it, to be clear), or you live with the idea that humans can hold a thought in their minds while they swipe.
Hitch