Maybe one of his British colleagues, e.g., Richard Southall, mentioned it? Fodder for an All Questions Answered session. EnOreg ( talk) 10:36, 9 June 2017 (UTC) Reply The Collins English Dictionary Digital edition lists it as a British English term: But where Knuth found it (clearly not there, no idea. MamaJohnny ( talk) 08:43, (UTC) Reply Knuth uses the term in his 1984 TeXbook but it doesn't seem to have spread beyond TeX. what's the etymology of that use of the word »club«. I'd be interested to know why that is, i.e. (A very short line at the top of a page is known as a “widow” a single word or part of a word at the end of a paragraph is an “orphan.”)īarsoomian ( talk) 19:40, 25 July 2009 (UTC) Reply disambiguation or derivation of the term ĭonald Knuth seems to call a widows a widow, but an orphan a »club«, as in the TeX command \clubpenalty. To correct any of these occurrences, page length may be adjusted.
Nor should the last word in any paragraph be broken-that is, hyphenated, with the last part of the word beginning a new line.
#TURN OFF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS IN WORD 2010 FULL#
If in doubt, the proofreader may query “Type OK?” or “Too dark?” When four or more lines end with a hyphen or the same word, word spacing should be adjusted to prevent such “stacks.” A page should not begin with the last line of a paragraph unless it is full measure and should not end with the first line of a new paragraph. Such apparent impairments as fuzzy type, incomplete letters, and blocks of type that appear lighter or darker than the surrounding text may be due to poor photocopying.
#TURN OFF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS IN WORD 2010 MANUAL#
Codified in, e.g., the Chicago Manual of Styleģ.11 Overall appearance Each page or, better, each pair of facing pages should be checked for length (see 3.12), vertical spacing, position of running heads and page numbers, and so forth. Got any better authority for these (to me, arbitrary and silly) "rules"? - Hoary ( talk) 07:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Reply Those of us who do typsetting for a living actually do follow this "arbitrary and silly rule". The author doesn't give any reasoning for this, or even any appeal to authority. Instead, it flatly says A manuscript should have no widows or orphans. This does not claim that writing guides, plural, say any such thing. The assertion that writing guides, plural - and why writing, and not page composition or typography guides? - generally suggest this is sourced to a single handout by a single teacher. Writing guides generally suggest that a manuscript should have no widows and orphans, page 6 An orphan is the first line of a paragraph printed by itself at the bottom of a page. If we want to present the terms in more contrast to each other, I wouldn't mind if someone adjusted my text, but I think it is important to mention both definitions.- Andrew c 14:13, 19 June 2007 (UTC) Reply I have edited to remove a lot of the repetition and hopefully make clear that widow refers to the last line of a paragraph (which may or may not fall at the top of a page) and orphan refers to the first line (which is cut off at the bottom of a page), 143.252.80.100 16:01, 5 July 2007 (UTC) Reply From Microsoft Word Help Ī widow is the last line of a paragraph printed by itself at the top of a page. I have added the other meaning, with sources, to the intro. The other is regarding very short lines at the end of paragraphs. One is regarding a left over line that starts or ends a paragraph at the beginning or end of a page. The confusion that many people have voiced in the past on this talk page is because there are multiple meanings for these terms.
RaphaelFreeman 11:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC) Reply Okay, once and for all
It is only when paragraphs are leaded, and when there is an empty space above the single last line, that they become obnoxious." It would seem to me, however, that avoiding it can be no more than wishful thinking. In fact Jan Tschichold states in the Form of the Book page 136, "Some people spurn the first line of a new paragraph at the bottom of a page. So in the wiki article it is incorrect to say that orphans should be suppressed. (I would add that the exception is the typesetting of Hebrew bibles where widows are acceptable for traditional reasons) It is the custom – in most, if not in all, the world’s typographic cultures – to give them one additional line for company." They have a past but not a future, and they look foreshortened and forlorn. The stub-ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called widows. They have no past, but they do have a future, and they need not trouble the typographer. Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of a page are known as orphans.
According to Robert Bringhurst’s, Elements of Typographic style, page 43 and I quote "Never begin a page with the last line of a multi-line paragraph, There seems to be much confusion all round.
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