![]() ![]() These short lines at the top of a page break up the flow of text and cause the spread to look amateurish. Now, some of these items are acceptable in a fiction novel, especially one with a small column width, others to be eliminated at all cost so lets talk about which to worry about and how to take care of them. ![]() Note, single lines such as dialogue are NOT considered Widows.Ī paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page.Ī word or part of a word that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. There is some disagreement about which is a widow and which an orphan, it seems to vary geographically so for the purpose of this document I will use the following definitionsĪ paragraph-ending line that is less that 3/4 your column width that falls at the beginning of the following page. Runts are single words or portions of a word left alone on one line at the bottom of a paragraph. In typesetting, widows and orphans are words or short lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a page. No we’re not talking about old ladies and children here. ![]()
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