OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

[proposal] text clarification for widows.

  • 1.  [proposal] text clarification for widows.

    Posted 04-14-2007 09:30
    Hello TC.
    
    In ODF 1.1 I read; (parag 15.5.9 Widows)
    
    "Use the fo:widows property to specify the minimum number of lines allowed 
    at the top of a page to avoid paragraph widows."
    
    From wikipedia:
    "In typesetting, a widow occurs when the majority of a paragraph appears 
    on one page with the last line of that paragraph flowing to the top of 
    the following page. Because the entire paragraph did not fit in its 
    entirety on one page, its last line of text was forced to "continue on 
    its own" as a widow on the following page."
    
    I'd like to propose a clarification to that paragraph. I'd like to have 
    the following text instead;
    
    "Use the fo:widows property to specify the minimum number of lines 
    required after a pagebreak to avoid paragraph widows when the paragraph 
    is split."
    
    Changing 'allowed' to 'required' is wanted as the current text makes it 
    really hard to distinguish between widows and orphans.
    
    1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_(typesetting)
    -- 
    Thomas Zander