how to handle widowing

[bfriesen]

We have some issues where the style sheet can fit the heading and three lines of text on the bottom of the page instead of pushing it to the next page so the topic makes more sense. How and where can I adjust this?

Bryon

[GarethOakes]

Have you found the built-in widow/orphans controls? Depending on your version of Styler they will be under "Keeps" or "Breaks" and allow you to control the number of widow or orphan lines at the top/bottom of each page.

[bfriesen]

Thanks for the information Gareth, we are using 6.1, I do see the options under breaks, keeps. What is the common practice to adjust?Do you go to the topic and adjust settings there or do you go to title. By looking at a few of them the widow orphan control is set to derive and the keep properties, keep content together is set to 7.

Thanks Bryon

[GarethOakes · Accepted solution]

That decision is really up to the document type. I think by default most contexts will "derive" from their parent context, but some contexts may override those settings. I am not intimately familiar with the stylesheet you are using so can't give specific advice.

In general, the stylesheets we build here at GPSL tend to have a global default (eg. on <topic>) which derives down to all contexts. It is usually only for special cases that you need to override the widows/orphans settings.

[bfriesen]

It seems that our style sheet has a global <topic> with individual contexts following beneath it. The problem will be to figure out which one (topic in a topic ... ) is causing issue and change the lines to keep at the bottom of the page. Thanks for the guidance Gareth much appreciated.

Bryon