Comments on: Know Your Typo-Terms http://blogs.level-studios.com/blog/2009/05/know-your-typo-terms/ LEVEL Studios company blog. Where interactive design, technology, and strategy unite. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Patrick http://blogs.level-studios.com/blog/2009/05/know-your-typo-terms/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Patrick Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:29:20 +0000 http://blogs.level-studios.com/?p=124#comment-2 When talking about paragraph page flow, I can never remember which is an orphan and which is a widow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans tells us that a widow is "A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the remainder of the text." and an orphan is "A word, part of a word or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph." Hope that helps someone. When talking about paragraph page flow, I can never remember which is an orphan and which is a widow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans tells us that a widow is “A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the remainder of the text.” and an orphan is “A word, part of a word or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph.”

Hope that helps someone.

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