![]() ![]() In the following text (set in 11/14 Georgia over 25 picas), a rash of widows appears. A hyphenated widow - in which the last line of a paragraph is a morsel of a hyphenated word - is a particularly egregious subspecies. The wider the line length (also called measure), the more impact a very short widow can have. According to what I learned as a lad, a widow becomes a problem when it’s so short that it creates the visual impression of a blank line between paragraphs. Most everyone agrees that a widow is a short last line of a paragraph. At the end, you can use whatever terms you like for these conditions, as long as we all agree on solutions to the problems they raise. But for the sake of this discussion - and because I’m writing it - let’s use my definitions for the time being. Discussions of typographic widows and orphans normally start with an argument about definitions and what these terms precisely mean.
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