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#lang pollen
◊ ( define - meta title "widow and orphan control" )
◊ hanging - topic [ ( topic - from - metas metas ) ] { Your call }
Picture a paragraph that starts at the bottom of one page and continues at the top of the next page . When only the last line of the paragraph appears at the top of the next page , that line is called a ◊ em { widow } . When only the first line of the paragraph appears at the bottom of the first page , that line is called an ◊ em { orphan } .
◊ em { Widow and orphan control } prevents both . Orphans are moved to the next page with the rest of the paragraph . To cure widows , lines are moved from the bottom of one page to the top of the next . Thus , widow control will frequently produce extra blank lines at the bottom of your pages .
Do you need widow and orphan control ? Try it . See how it looks . In my own work , I approach widow and orphan control the same way I approach ◊ xref { ligatures } — I only use it if widows and orphans are causing a visible problem . Otherwise , I find that the blank lines at the bottom of the page are more annoying than the widows and orphans .