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Fixing widows and orphans

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Fixing widows and orphans

- [Instructor] Continuing to finesse our text, we've addressed short line or runts. We've fixed where we can any h and j violations and we're now going to fix widows and orphans. And I'm deliberately doing things in this order. Firstly, a definition. A widow is the last line of a paragraph that gets trapped at the top of a page. An orphan, is the first line of a paragraph that gets trapped at the bottom of the page. Both are to be avoided if possible. Here I am on pages 14 and 15. If I turn the page, at the top of page 16, I have a widowed line. The last line of a paragraph that occurs at the top of a page. Am I worried about this? I would prefer it not to be there but it's a long line so the fix is probably going to cause more problems than it solves. It is possible that I might, within the same chapter, be able to find a place that precedes it in the text, where I can gain a line. That's not really going to be the case here except maybe on this paragraph. Let's try this one. Before…

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