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Orphan (typesetting)
In typesetting, an orphan is a word or the last line of a paragraph appearing at the top of a page, with the rest of the paragraph appearing on the preceding page. If the first line of a paragraph appears at the bottom of a page with the remainder appearing on the following page, it is called a widow by type-setters.
Orphans are usually considered to be 'bad' typography and should be suppressed.
Some of the techniques for eliminating an unwanted orphan include:
- forcing a page break early, producing a short page,
- adjusting the leading, (rhymes with "heading") the space between lines, or inter-paragraph spacing,
- adjusting the word spacing to produce 'tighter' or 'looser' paragraphs,
- rewriting the paragraph.
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