Posted by Ralf Jahns on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/widows-and-orphans-poor-typography-in-asciidoctor-pdf-tp7531.html

Hello,

in the document I created, there are lots of widows and orphans, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans. (Believe me, the german name is even funnier.)

I also have headings as the last line of a page.

I could insert page breaks manually with <<<< but if I modify the text afterwards and things move, the page breaks will not fit any more :-(

Sorry, but in my humble opinion, taking care of this is a must for every typesetting system.

One more thing I don't like is, that the distance above and below headings is equal. A heading should be closer to the following text, because it belongs to this. I checked a few books and in each and every book it is so.

I was able to modify the default-theme.yml (after I found it, which wasn't easy) but unfortunately it doesn't look good if two headings follow directly:

== heading1
=== heading2

Best regards
Ralf