- From: Jen Simmons via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:05:57 +0000
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For anyone wondering the source for my assertion that it should be `avoid-widows`, not `avoid-orphans`… Robert Bringhurst in _The Elements of Typographic Style_ best explained which is which (in the context of first/last lines of a paragraph ending up on by themselves at the beginning/end of a column) on page 43-44 (emphasis added): > The typographic terminology is telling. Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of a page are known as **orphans. They have no past, but they do have a future,** and they need not trouble the typographer. The stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called **widows. They have a past but not a future,** and they look foreshortened and forlorn. It is the custom — in most, if not in all, the world’s typographic cultures — to give them one additional line for company. This rule is applied in close conjunction with the next. -- GitHub Notification of comment by jensimmons Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/11283#issuecomment-2711098249 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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