RE: orphans and widows??

Tanzila,

Traditionally, a widow is a line or two of text which breaks to another
page, either leading or trailing the body of a paragraph; an orphan is an
individual word or hyphenated part which breaks to a line by itself, at a
page break or not.  The XSL spec uses these terms differently.  Here
orphans refers to the minimum lines leading a paragraph which must appear
before a break and widows refers to the minimum lines to appear after a
break at the top of the new page.

These properties apply at the block level and each defaults to two.

They can be applied to block-areas in tables just as to paragraphs.

HTH,

Mike

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Tanzila Mohammad wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> The context in which orphans and widows was described involves tables and in
> particular particular rows of the table that need to be kept together.
>
> Tanz
>
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> Subject: Re:  orphans and widows??
>
>
> In publishing, "orphans" and "widows" are terms used almost
> interchangeably both referring to runover lines of text. If a
> paragraph has 5 full lines of text and one word on the sixth line,
> that last word is referred to as an "orphan." A paragraph which
> starts on one page where the last line of the paragraph starts at the
> top of the next page is also called an "orphan." Finally, a "widow"
> is a paragraph which starts at the bottom of a page where only the
> first line fits on the bottom of the page and the rest is continued
> on the next page. Because the terms are often used interchangeably,
> your friend is telling you to "make orphans" by increasing the
> tracking--space between characters--of your text in order to create
> more runover lines or by rebreaking lines manually.
>
> If you are trying to do this automatically in order to preserve
> SPECIFIC page breaks then your friend's suggestion is probably a poor
> one. You would have to go paragraph by paragraph to adjust each one
> accordingly. If you are using a typesetting software of some kind, so
> you should probably find out:
>
> a) If there is any way to find or create a page break code in your XML
> b) What the code is for a page break in your typesetting software and
> have XSL replace the old code (assuming you are able to add it) with
> the new code.
>
> hope that helps a little.
>
>
>
> >I am doing some work in FO and it has been suggested that in order to force
> >data from one page to another I can use orphans and widows.
> >
> >I have no idea what they are, can anyone advise a site in which orphans and
> >widows are explained and examples given?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Tanz
> >
> >
> >
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> Thanks Muchos,
>
> Greg Martel
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Mike Haarman -- mhaarma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
College of Liberal Arts   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, West Bank


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