Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

not really; orphans are more often associated with lines, not "words", and
are related to widows; an orphan is a line (or small number of lines) at
the end of the column/page which lines continue to next column/page, while
a widow is a line (or small number of lines) at the beginning of the
column/page which lines continue from the previous column/page;

using the term "orphan" for "words" is not as common, and refers to words
in a short last line of a paragraph (not at the end of a line), that might
have been prevented if tighter tracking/setting had been used; i would tend
to call this a "short last line" rather than an orphan;


On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote:

> In typography, orphans are lone words at the end of a line. However, in
> CSS, the orphans property controls the minimum number of lines in a block
> container that must be left at the bottom of a page, not the minimum number
> of words at the end of a line. Is there anything planned for typographic
> orphans? If not, why?
>
> This must have been discussed before, but can't seem to find it, sorry.
> Also, happy new year to everybody!
>
> ~Lea
>