Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

Thats a fair point I guess I was thinking of right to left languages and so
on but that can just be handled the other way round.

I guess the line-min-orphans (widows would be a better idea to match
current CSS) could just operate on blocks of text with more than one
sentence.

The cat example you gave doesn't suffer from the same broken sentence issue
that I was quoting so that could be ignored.
On 8 Jan 2015 02:13, "Lea Verou" <lea@verou.me> wrote:

> I don’t think overly short first lines are a problem, especially given
> that all browsers currently wrap text greedily (something that should also
> be addressed IMO at some point. Greedy wrapping is terrible and there *are*
> linear time algorithms to achieve the same quality text wrapping as with
> Knuth-Plass. But that’s another discussion and I suspect the IE team would
> have a lot to say, since they’ve implemented better wrapping that is opt-in
> via a proprietary property IIRC).
>
> ~Lea
>
> On Jan 8, 2015, at 04:08, Jonathan Kingston <jonathan@jooped.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Perhaps like the 'orphans' and 'widows' currently in place for print css
> allow the same behaviour with simpler: 'line-orphans' and 'line-widows'.
>
> This would allow you to specify both to 3 and in a case of less than 6
> would wrap as normal.
> On 8 Jan 2015 02:02, "Lea Verou" <lea@verou.me> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 03:32, Jonathan Kingston <jonathan@jooped.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> It might be useful to discuss what would happen in the case of a
>> paragraph with line-min-orphans: N; and a content of < 2N words. E.g. if
>> the text is "This is a cat.", I most definitely wouldn’t want it to wrap
>> like this to avoid orphans:
>>
>> This
>> is a cat.
>>
>> ~Lea
>
>
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