sasaki@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Dr. Jim Sasaki ) (01/24/89)
In article <1510@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes: > How are widows and orphans controlled? The manual describes a feature which > allows you to keep lines together on the same page, but when I use it, it > wants to put the *whole* paragraph on one page. I don't have a Mac in front of me, but I'm pretty sure this should work. Try selecting the first and second lines of the paragraph before using Keep On Same Page. That should keep the first line from being orphaned. (Or is it 'widowed?' I never can remember.) Similarly, select the last and next-to-last lines of the paragraph before using Keep On Same Page to keep the last line from being widowed. Jim Sasaki (sasaki@umbc3.umbc.edu)
sobiloff@thor.stolaf.edu (Blake Sobiloff) (01/26/89)
The widow trick mentioned in the previous article doesn't work right because WN brings the entire paragraph down to fit on the next page (the one where the widow was origionally located). The only way I have found around this problem is to insert a hard return before the line before the widow (make any sense?). Then select the widow and its previous line and choose the Keep Lines Together option. This will keep those last two lines together on the following page. This is pretty kludgey, though. Is there a better way of doing this??? Blake "Hey, where's MY fancy footer?" Sobiloff