In most cases, Pressbooks has widow and orphan settings as follows: They have a past, but no future.”Īccording to Bringhurst, “orphans need not trouble the typographer … but widows should get one extra line for company.” Widows are the “stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page. They have no past, but they do have a future.” Orphans are “isolated lines created when a paragraphs begin on the last line of a page. In particular, there are tradeoffs in Pressbooks between control of widows and orphans, and bottom-balancing. Pressbooks is a wonderfully easy tool to help you create well-designed print books, but that ease comes with some typographical constraints.
This chapter covers some typographical conventions: widows, orphans and bottom balancing, and how to control them.
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