Pagebreak, widows and orphans

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Very easily. It (to me) just looks odd if there is space at the bottom of the screen and it is not a section break, a new chapter/flow, or a graphic that doesn't fit in the space left.

Next time you see some space at the bottom, get yourself into thinking there is a graphic that doesn't fit. When you turn the page, there will be no graphic, but you won't have the space at the bottom anyway (or, if you do, repeat).

What the renderer should do is altering the linebreaking parameters of the paragraphs in the page in order to gain/lose one extra line without changing the linespacing. What it could also do (but the user should decide whether or not to allow this) is alter the spacing between paragraphs and/or linespacing.

For paper books, authors also have the choice of actually changing the text (adding/replacing/removing words) to make the text fit the page more nicely, but this is not an option in an ebook.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Next time you see some space at the bottom, get yourself into thinking there is a graphic that doesn't fit. When you turn the page, there will be no graphic, but you won't have the space at the bottom anyway (or, if you do, repeat).

What the renderer should do is altering the linebreaking parameters of the paragraphs in the page in order to gain/lose one extra line without changing the linespacing. What it could also do (but the user should decide whether or not to allow this) is alter the spacing between paragraphs and/or linespacing.

For paper books, authors also have the choice of actually changing the text (adding/replacing/removing words) to make the text fit the page more nicely, but this is not an option in an ebook.

Nah. I prefer to see consistent page lengths when possible. If RMDSK could adjust the screen page to minimize the gap, then that would be OK. But as it is, it's not for me.

[UncleIvor]

Apologies for not having replied earlier – my Internet connection has been intermittent.

I came across the widows and orphans in a CSS file, and was curious about its implementation. I should, of course, have realised that although things like this might be in the specification, many apps or readers might not implement the full specification.

I was interested in the page break tag since I wanted to use it in context of images. I had in mind using quite a large image which would take up an entire page, so I could use page break before and the page break after.

But thank you for all your comments and help.