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Re: widows vs orphans
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: widows vs orphans |
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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:10:41 -0400 |
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, Dave Kemper wrote:
> ...web research has led me to conclude that there's a stronger
> consensus than Wikipedia credits: that orphans are at page bottom
> and widows at page top.
> What do our resident typographers regard as a widow and an orphan?
Without wanting to be presscriptive about something so touchy, I
learned the following when I was an apprentice typesetter: "Widows
have no future and orphans have no past." A single word at the
bottom of the page has no "future" words afterwards; a single word
at the top of the page has no "past" words preceding it.
Cheers.
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Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca