From there you can adjust the minimum number of lines of text per page. 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. With the text frame selected or your Type Tool (T) cursor set in the paragraph, check the Optical Margin Alignment box. In InDesign, go to Window > Type & Tables > Story. 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. As well as being a great way of making your paragraphs look generally more symmetrical and attractive, it’s also a nifty way of helping to get widows and orphans in line. 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. If the post is technical in nature, any advice is probably out of date and. ![]() ![]() That probably means, at best, there are broken images and links. Its possibly been exported and imported from at least three different blogging platforms over the years. Before you think I am writing about women who have lost their husbands, or children without parents I want to stop you there. Preventing widows and orphans within InDesign Thursday.
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