paul womack wrote:
Michael Halpin wrote:
I realize that orphans according to fop are the first line of a
paragraph at the bottom of a page where the rest of the paragraph
breaks onto the next page.
I'd call that a "widow", a term also used for headings
which have "lost" their body text.
> In traditional editing an orphan is a lone
word at the end of a paragraph. Does anyone know if there is a way to
tell fop to either suck up the word to the previous line or to bump a
word down automatically as to avoid orphans at the end of a paragraph.
I work in the print/prepress trade, and the term orphan
is generic (in my experience); "any trailing isolated thing".
The worst case I've ever seen was where the second half
of a hyphenated word at the end of a paragraph
wrapped onto the next page... !
Further context; in OpenOffice (v2.3 if it matters)
the options you're talking of are in "paragraph style",
"text flow", options. One of the options is "keep paragraph together"
If this is NOT checked, the options "widow control" and "orphan control"
can be used, both expressed as a number of lines.
BugBear
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