- From: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:37:21 +1100
- To: www-style@w3.org
One hesitation I have concerning the current proposal is that the description in the referenced wikipedia page is A word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page. The "or very short line" part and the sole rationale given for avoiding such orphans relates not to the number of words but rather their total length. It might be that typographers would accept ending a paragraph with the line "uncharacteristically." on a short measure, but would reject ending a paragraph ending with a line consisting of the last two or three words of "as it is." on a wide measure. If so, then perhaps the property should be based on length, and perhaps it should accept percentage values that refer to the width [or inline progression dimension] of the containing block. pjrm.
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