Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Handling 'widows' and 'orphans'. (#3473)

There are already controls for widows and orphan lines and page/column breaks in https://drafts.csswg.org/css-break/#widows-orphans.

A control for widowed words on the last line could be useful, but it doesn't exist yet. However, I suspect it needs to be paired with a better line breaking algorithm than the current greedy one to achieve good results. If all the lines of the paragraph are re-balanced to  push the needed word(s) to the last line, all may be fine, but just pulling from the line before last is probably going to lead to sub-optimal results. Also, we'd need to figure out what this means in languages that do not separate words with spaces, such as Japanese or Chinese.

I suppose there's prior art in other software, and we should have a look at what they do there. InDesign maybe?

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