Text flow irregulatities

[Frecks]

I am trying to lay out a chapter of a book and cannot understand why the text does not flow to the bottom of every page (frame). There must be something I'm missing here!

[MikeTO]

It might be the Flow Options for the quoted italic paragraph on the next page. I can't see where the cursor is but it's somewhere in the left frame and that has prevent widows and orphans selected as well as Keep With Next 1 line. I recommend setting Keep With Next to 0 because:

• The last two lines of the paragraph broken onto the next page must be joined with the first two lines of the next paragraph due to the interplay of widow/orphan and Keep With 1.
• And that next paragraph is only 2 lines so it must be joined with the first two lines of the following (quoted italic) paragraph.
• If the quoted italic paragraph had Keep Paragraph Together selected, then the last 2 lines of the broken paragraph, the next 2-line paragraph, the entire quoted paragraph, the next 2-line paragraph, and the first 2 lines of the next paragraph would all need to be kept together. Add in the footnotes in the quoted paragraph and this is how you get a big gap.

Turning off Keep With 1 for all of the paragraphs should make your document flow better. I use that option only for headings and inline images, to keep headings with the first lines of the following body text paragraph and images with the following captions, so I don't have a heading at the bottom of a column or an image split from its caption. I never use this option for body text.

[Frecks]

Thanks - I had thought that "Prevent widowed last lines" and "Keep with next 1 lines" were related, but see now that they are independent so have set "Keep with" to 0 and it works.