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Old 04-30-2010, 09:21 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by charleski View Post
1) Go into the css and insert
Code:
body {
  widows: 1;
  orphans: 1;
}
2) Make sure that the top and bottom margins for normal paragraphs are set to 0, and that scene breaks (a pause in the text to indicate a break in the narrative) are indicated by setting the margin-top value to the line-height (which defaults to 1.2em) on the paragraph that follows a break. The yawning gulfs you have between paragraphs in the pictures are just a waste of space and their margins aren't synced with the baseline grid, meaning the text wanders around.

It's not an ADE issue. ADE may have a few problems, but I don't know why people blame it for epubs that have been poorly typeset.
Well, I personally blamed it on ADE because I saw the gap in the middle of a paragraph and it was a pretty impressive gap (see screenshots). The first shows the gap at the medium font size, the second is the same text at small font size.
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