The strict rule was that the bottom margins had to match across facing pages. If I couldn't, I gave myself a limit as to how many fractions of an inch I could go above or below it. If I could get it to work with no widows or orphans at the standard height, fine. But I had a range for the bottom margins, more or less than the dimension in the document settings. One style for chapter beginnings another, with page numbers, for the chapter text. I set my top margins in stone, of course. But I think the capabilities of the latest releases are probably the same. Keep in mind I don't use MS Word, I use WordPerfect. I wasn't out solely to eliminate widows and orphans, but also to purge out single words on the bottom lines of paragraphs and words hyphenated across pages. I had a lot of fun with this when I was laying out my print book (read: Had to put a ton of work into it), but I think it was worth it. How do y'all deal with widows and orphans? Facing pages have the same number of lines, but there are numerous instances throughout the book where one pair of pages has one line fewer than the pair of pages before or after it. I'm looking at one novel on my desk (paperback, and pretty much a mass market edition) that allows orphans (but apparently not widows), but also doesn't have the same number of lines on each page. Which is more important, keeping the lines aligned across pages, or avoiding windows and orphans? Is there a way to do both? If so - what's the secret? That's the conundrum that led to my question.
One work-around is to adjust the line spacing on one of the two pages, but then the lines don't all match up across the two pages - and they're supposed to. It's easy enough to overlook that and just call it good, but it's not really "right" from a book design perspective. If the facing page doesn't have a widow (or an orphan on the page after that), one of two facing pages has fewer lines than the other, and the bottoms of the text blocks don't align across the two facing pages.
Either way, it kicks at least one line from one page to the next. What happens with widow and orphan protection turned on is that Word doesn't allow a single line at the bottom of a page or at the top of a page. But the problem may also occur in higher end DTP and page layout programs, too. Yes, Word offers widow and orphan protection.
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