On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Stephan Michels wrote:
> Sorry, I mixed widows and orphans before. I always do :-/
>
Yeah, big difference ;).
> The jusitfy alignment distributes only the available space in the row.
> But I want more space to get an additional row or two.
>
Then I'd turn off "auto" justification for that paragraph and do it
yourself as necessary. Be aware, however, that word spacing ONLY
works for Latin/Roman text and character spacing will screw up any
auto-kerning in place. In fact, personally, I would avoid these two
operators all together and just look into more intelligent
justification algorithms.
> I can simply prevent orphans in a column if I check if the available
> height is smaller than e.g. 2 rows, then I put the paragraph into the
> next column.
> To prevent widows I have to adjust the character and word spacing so
> that I have an additional row. I know I can increase the c. and w.
> spacing only a little, just below the visibility, but sometimes it is
> enough to prevent the orphan.
Why not implement this sort of stuff directly into iText (and then
provide a patch)?? By doing widow and orphan control internally, in
conjunction with a smarter justification algorithm that takes
vertical issues into consideration will just improve iText.
Leonard
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