Orphans & widows

[garrettm30]

48 minutes ago, ladyboomboom said:

I am confused. What you saying is that there is no way for automatic avoiding widows and orphans in Publisher? This option in Paragraph panel seems to not working for me (Polish), neither selected on Master page and on regular pages. I need to avoid the short words left at the end of the line. I'm struggling with it for some time now, would greatly appreciate help! 

I think what you are talking about is not what the English widows and orphans refers to, so that might be where some of the confusion lies. An orphan is a single line of a paragraph as the last line of a page, and a widow is the last line of a paragraph at the top of a new page. The Paragraph Studio controls for these things causes an earlier page break than otherwise necessary in order to insure that there are at least two lines of each paragraph on each page.

Put it another way, widow and orphan control in English refers to managing page breaks, not line breaks. So do I understand you to be asking about the latter? If so, there is no setting that would do it in Publisher, but you can prevent line breaks at certain places by inserting a nonbreaking space instead of a regular space. I would even suggest find/replace by regular expression.

I do not know the rules of your language, but here is a sample where I have assumed that all words of a single letter should not start a new line. (Be sure to set up the find/replace in "regular expression" mode.)

Find:

 ([[:alpha:]])\b

(There is a space at the start of that string, so be sure to select it as well as the rest.)

Replace:

 $1

(There is a nonbreaking space at the start of that string, so be sure to select it also. I think your browser may copy it as a regular space as mine does, so just be sure you have a nonbreaking space as the space character before the $.)

That gives the idea. If you need help to alter the rules of that search, please let us know. Or if it is not clear (as may well be the case), then give me a sample document and explain the rules of which words should not break in your language, and I will try to demonstrate with a short video.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, ladyboomboom said:

What you saying is that there is no way for automatic avoiding widows and orphans in Publisher?

The are settings to avoid that, and many things have changed in the two years since this conversation occurred.

Can you provide a small sample .afpub document with the settings you have tried that shows your problem? With such a document perhaps we can show you the solution, or confirm that no solution exists today.

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

under "Text Styles > Paragraph > Justification" a "Glyph Scalling" feature is missing.

Also, controlling "orphans/widows" by entering values is a "must". I used it regulary in InDesign when I worked on macedonian editions of Rhonda Byrne books, like: "The Secret",  "The Power", "The Magic", "Hero".