![]() ![]() It’s a little more complicated than it sounds, because curing a widow cannot create a new orphan, nor vice versa. To cure widows, lines are moved from the bottom of one page to the top of the next. Orphans are moved to the next page with the rest of the paragraph. Widow and orphan control prevents both. ![]() When only the first line of the paragraph appears at the bottom of the first page, that line is called an orphan. When only the last line of the paragraph appears at the top of the next page, that line is called a widow. Picture a paragraph that starts at the bottom of one page and continues at the top of the next page. It’s a fiddly way of approaching rewrites, but there are always a few extra words, and since they are mine, I feel empowered to deal with them ruthlessly. I often edit a phrase here or there just to make the pages come out even. When I’m writing sermons or speeches, I can’t stand to have a paragraph run from one page to the next. ![]()
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