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Old 08-27-2009, 08:42 AM   #213
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Originally Posted by Abecedary View Post
ADE already does fairly decent widow/orphan control. It won't allow single lines of a paragraph to stand alone at the end of a page or at the beginning of a page. The result of this is that you may end up with 2 blank lines at the end of a page (since the bumped paragraph would consist of 3 lines). Something they could do is modulate the leading a tiny bit to spread everything out to make those 2 missing lines less noticeable.
Note that CSS2 has "widows" and "orphans" properties (both default to 2):
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#break-inside

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