On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, Dave Kemper wrote: > ...web research has led me to conclude that there's a stronger > consensus than Wikipedia credits: that orphans are at page bottom > and widows at page top.
> What do our resident typographers regard as a widow and an orphan? Without wanting to be presscriptive about something so touchy, I learned the following when I was an apprentice typesetter: "Widows have no future and orphans have no past." A single word at the bottom of the page has no "future" words afterwards; a single word at the top of the page has no "past" words preceding it. Cheers. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
