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Old 07-18-2022, 05:28 PM   #75
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Originally Posted by bookman156 View Post
I'm in two minds whether windows/orphans are better or worse than uneven spaces. As it's an reflowable ebook, windows/orphans are sort of expected, so I set it to 1, whereas uneven number of lines per page is less expected, indeed causing some consternation with this client, and they could also appear to be a deliberate space. Stuck between a rock and a hard place with this.
Y'know, I'm with you--but then, invariably, if we DO turn on W/O and they get uneven pages, they bitch and if we don't, they complain that they have W/O. I am accustomed--accustomed, mind you, not merely inured-to, receiving proof forms with hundreds of "W/O" corrections marked down for us, in ePUB/MOBI formats. I mean...it doesn't matter how many times I say "there are no w/o in eBooks" or the like, or "change the font size, so that you get a better idea of how this all works," or anything else. Invariably, a few times/month, sure 'nuff...here comes the ubiquitous widows-orphans eBook proofing form. Sigh.

(And don't get me started about print--squaring the page in today's world, versus w/o, versus aligning across the grid, versus costs. Just...don't get me started. This ain't ye olden days, when people paid normal money for print layout and expected to be in production for some months. Noooo, now, they want to match pricing for a $200 Fiverr for a 100K-word novel, AND they expect you to hand-kern and track for runts and widows/orphans. Ha.) I ran into one "print designer" for a woman who told me that she charges next to nothing--in the hundreds, for non-fiction and, wait for it, actually does sit there and hand-track and kern, line-by-line, through the entire book. Hell, for what she was being paid, I wouldn't have done it for 10 pages. Phoeey.)

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