- From: Lea Verou <lea@verou.me>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 00:17:54 +0200
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
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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