![]() ![]() In the text box you want to adjust press Ctrl + Alt + K (Cmd + Opt + K on a Mac) and you get a very handy dialogue box. ![]() Orphans result in too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page.īasically they look bad and should be avoided.Īfter doing a bit of hunting around I discovered that Adobe InDesign has a very handy method of avoiding them. Orphan: A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page/column or a word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Widow: A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text. The Chicago Manual of style defines them as this: Widows and orphans is a term used within design used to describe text that overflows into different pages or columns badly. Before you think I am writing about women who have lost their husbands, or children without parents I want to stop you there.
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