alt Hacker NewsWidows are when the final line of a paragraph starts the next page. Orphans are when the first line of a paragraph ends a page.
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Biganon • today at 5:06 AM
Funny because "fixing an orphan" is hard in real life (assuming they've lost both their parents, you have to find them a foster home) but easy in typesetting (just add an empty line before), whereas "fixing a widow" is easy in real life (just remarry) but hard in typesetting.
tonyedgecombe • today at 8:13 AM
You will have to explain what a page is to the younger readers.
In german typography the name for widow is "Hurenkind" wich translates to "child of a whore". I was pretty surprised to hear that word on a regular basis while working in text for print. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurenkind_und_Schusterjunge