Not exact matches
Neither seems to be fully in
line with what James called «true religion,» which is to attend to
widows and orphans (i.e., to vulnerable women
and children) in their affliction (James 1:27).
Click on the
line and page break tab
and make sure you have unclicked
widow and orphan control.
If you want to not have your pages end two
lines early on some pages, then make sure you tell your formatter that you don't want to set
widows and orphans at the default setting (Note: I set mine to 1, so this is what you can tell your formatter you want yours to be if your taste matches mine).
Widows and orphans: The first
line of a paragraph shouldn't fall on the last
line of a page,
and the last
line of a paragraph should not go over to the top of the next page.
The text will look different on every device because text size,
line spacing
and fonts are controlled by the reader which can incur
widows and orphans in the text.
They look for
and remove
widows (the first
line of a paragraph left behind at the bottom of a page)
and orphans (the last
line of a paragraph sitting forlornly at the top of a page).
A designer / typesetter has a trained eye for these small mistakes (like
widows,
orphans, bad hyphenation, or loose
lines)
and will adjust to create a seamless reading experience.
Some of the most common mistakes authors
and publishers make when it comes to interior book design include omitting hyphens, incorrect margin size, imperfect justification,
and allowing
widow /
orphan lines of text.
Prevent «
widows»
and «
orphans»: Format > Paragraph > Page
and Line Breaks.
The process of typesetting an e-book includes selecting typefaces, setting rules for normal body text (such as alignment,
line spacing,
and handling of breaks,
widows and orphans),
and visually designing special text such as headers or block quotes.
In e-books, you also can't prevent
widows -
and -
orphans — as a single
line of text from the beginning or end of a paragraph is called in traditional print publishing — because the appearance of
widows -
and -
orphans will change for the same e-book depending on the size of the font, margins,
and spacing chosen by the readers, as well as on each different device — smartphone or iPad Pro, for example — that the same reader is using.
The Kindle still suffers endlessly from
widowed words,
orphaned lines, inaccurate spacing, ignorant kerning
and other problems galore.
If you have ever solved the problem of
orphans and widows with a soft or hard
line break, think again.
In typesetting,
Widows and Orphans refer to the singular word or
line of text that is disconnected to the main body of a paragraph.
Widows are those pesky single words taking up a whole
line at the end of a paragraph,
and orphans are the first
lines of paragraphs at the bottom of pages that get separated from the rest of the paragraph on the following pages.4.