Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

Control over sentence orphans would be brilliant, if for example the
following could be controlled:

p {
  line-min-orphans: 3;
}

<p>
Hello here is some sample text. Here is a new sentence. Here is another
longer sentence that spans multiple lines that is long etc etc.
</p>

May currently look this on a small screen:
Hello here is some sample text. Here
is a new sentence. Here is another
longer sentence that spans multiple
lines that is long etc etc.

Would output:
Hello here is some sample text.
Here is a new sentence.
Here is another longer sentence
that spans multiple lines
that is long etc etc.

Support for more than just screen and print would be useful for this.

On 7 January 2015 at 17:42, Lea Verou <lea@verou.me> wrote:

> 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
>