Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

On Jan 5, 2015, at 00:15, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

> On 4.1.2015 0:20, Lea Verou wrote:
>> Wikipedia mentions them both equivalently, and search results for "orphan" seem more geared to the phenomenon I mentioned. Anyway, I’m not too concerned with terminology, I’m more concerned about whether there is a way to avoid them in CSS, and if not, whether there will be.
> 
> Then Wikipedia is wrong on this :-)
> 
> Actually I'm not sure whether setting minimum number of words on a last
> line of paragraph is the best metric. If you use paragraphs with first
> line indented, then many typographers prefer last line to be wider or
> equal then indent. So specifying minimal length of last line might be
> more appropriate constraint.

It could accept both a <length> and a <number>, where the number could either correspond to minimum number of characters or minimum number of words.

~Lea

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