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... ! BugBear --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
