On 08/18/2013 04:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:55 18/08/2013 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:
On 08/18/2013 07:43 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
... LO allows me to control widows and orphans separately, which I
appreciate since widows aren't nearly the problem that orphans are.
And, of course, I think I got that backwards. Orphans aren't a
problem, Widows can be.
As I understand it, an orphan is the first line of a paragraph alone
at the bottom of the page, and a widow is the last line of a
paragraph at the top of a page.
You are not alone in your confusion!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans says "There is some
disagreement about the definitions of widow and orphan; what one
source calls a widow the other calls an orphan."
Brian Barker
If I recall correctly, StarOffice had the widow/orphan designations
opposite from OpenOffice. I could be misremembering that, but I do seem
to remember some discrepancy between versions of the programs over the
years.
The way I heard it explained is that an "orphan has a future but no
past, and a widow has a past, but no future."
Virgil
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