Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

On Jan 7, 2015, at 19:37, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

> interesting that they call them 'widow' words, not orphan words, which shows that this terminology (either orphan or widow) is probably not good in this case; if i had to choose,i would have also called them widows, not orphans, based on the principle "an orphan is left behind, a widow goes on on alone".

Yup, I noticed that too (though keep in mind that Antennahouse is almost 100% non-native English speakers, and that is reflected in the naming of several AH proprietary properties, as well as the rest of the documentation).
Perhaps a name like min-last-line-length or min-last-line-words would be as explicit as possible, but a bit too verbose.

~Lea

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