I worked for Random House (US) for 25 years. Widows and orphans were not approved there through 1999.
Owen Lock Rainer Heilke wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: > >> Thomas Koll wrote: >> >>> There's no need to repeat the mistakes of others. >>> No one cares about widows or orphans nowadays >> >> >> >> Really? I'd have to disagree with that. I certainly do, and the paper >> I work for also tries to minimise them. Having to go to the top of >> the next column / to the next page / to the spill page to read that >> last darn word of the paragraph is very annoying. >> >> Craig Ringer > > > > Is this maybe another American thing? In Canada, widows and orphans > are still big no-nos as well. My impression is that this holds for the > UK , too. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
