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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It also happens in paper books. The only difference is that the publisher adjusts the line spacing to take up the gap. Hopefully someday the eBook readers will be smart enough to adjust the line spacing. It is not difficult to solve.
Dale
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From what I've learned, a proper typographer will solve the problem by balancing out the gap over several pages. So instead of having a 3-line gap on one page, there will be 1-line gaps at the bottom of the surrounding 3 pages. To quote Bringhurst, "Balance facing pages not by adding extra lead or puffing up the word space, but by exporting or importing single lines to and from the preceding or following spreads."
This method retains the vertical rhythm of the type and reduces both the frequency and amplitude of any changes in page length. Implementing it in a relowable system involves a degree of recursion, as the line-shifts obviously have the ability to introduce new orphan/widow problems, but it provides a far better solution than simply blowing up the line-height.