Is there some documentation of disclosed or undisclosed information of
whatever options Writer has for setting type? MS Word has a number of
such options which can be used by an editor to tweak the text. What I
have been experimenting with the past couple weeks (with Word 2007) is
attempting to lay out text manually much like a printer might. This
means that the orphan/widow control is disabled and the leading for all
paragraph styles is constant (and generally multiples of the lowest
leading value--typically 13.2 pt (120%) for an 11 pt font size, for
example.
For those times when the text doesn't fit the bottom of the page
perfectly, some tweaking of the interparagraph spacing is used (e.g.,
1/2 and 1 1/2 leading value). However, for those books where there is
not any real space between text bodies, this may cause some problems.
Usually, the most problems might arise mostly for three-line
paragraphs--if an objective is to not allow an widows or orphans.
Does anybody have any practical experience with this, and is there a
body of literature anywhere with some suggestions as it pertains to
Writer specifically?
Gary
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Gary Schnabl
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