![]() ![]() Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of a page are known as orphans. According to Robert Bringhurst’s, Elements of Typographic style, page 43 and I quote "Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraph, Pretty funny, actually.There seems to be much confusion all round. Thought of suggesting it - because it is what I have been doing for donkey’s years - but didn’t want the usual suspects doubting my ability to work around much of anything. So glad somebody with 3,360 posts and 1,219 returns suggested working with tracking and kerning to solve the “runt” problem. That human can see the context of how the pages balance and this would be incredibly difficult for a machine to do.Ģ cents times 50, Mike. It is easy enough to, while paging a document, make decisions as to whether one should micro-track narrower/tighter the entire paragraph or use kerning in order to push more words into that last line or to pull that last word up into the body of the paragraph. These decisions cannot be made by a check box or other type of entry box in the UI. For instance, I would be less likely to deal with the word accessibility than the word access. The issue isn't always that there is a single word but this single word's syllable count. Is there a term you use for this phenomenon? (I guess it's not called a widowed last line unless it comes after a page-break.)Īnd whatever the term you use for this one-word last line of a paragraph, is there a way to have the program avoid it by re-setting the text of the paragraph?Īutomatically preventing runts isn't necessarily a good idea anyway. Related question: It sometimes occurs that there is only one word in the last line of a paragraph. Hence some people would rather have an orphaned first line than blank space at the bottom of the page. ![]() An orphaned first line will always be a whole line, and that doesn't look so bad at the bottom of a page. Widowed lines can look worse because they can be short lines you might have just one or two words floating at the top of a page not connected to anything. Meanwhile the next page wouldn't be much improved by the extra line.įor this reason, some people allow orphaned first lines even while preventing widowed last lines. If you made the blank space taller by a line, it would look even worse. Using widow and orphan control at all has the drawback that it makes the previous page look uneven because of the blank space at the bottom. ![]()
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