Re: widows and orphans (poor typography) in asciidoctor-pdf
Posted by
mojavelinux on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/widows-and-orphans-poor-typography-in-asciidoctor-pdf-tp7531p7533.html
Don't worry, I know what you're talking about ;)
It's very unlikely windows and orphans will ever be implemented in Asciidoctor PDF (except in special cases) due to limitations in the underlying PDF generator. All is not lost, however. That's one of the reasons we're starting to explore a new solution to PDF generation that uses browser technologies, which support windows and orphans natively. I'll have more information about that in the weeks to come.
In the meantime, manual page breaks in the final draft are a necessary workaround.
Best,
-Dan
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08 PM Ralf Jahns [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <
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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
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