Widows and orphans

Developer use cases

• Let me first point out that typesetters and scribes have gathered many centuries – indeed even millenia – of experience how to keep legibility of a text at a high level. One of the aspects that they found is that having too little text of a paragraph on the end of a page – or at the beginning of a new page – makes the reader stumble over it, thus interrupting the flow of reading. In other words: these are established _best practices_. While more and more reading indeed happens on-screen (where there are no pages in the traditional sense), there are also a lot of readers who prefer to print out longer and more complex texts for "offline" reading. Not only to be independent of the network, but also because it is easier to read from paper, and also easier to actually remember later what has been read.

  Let me first point out that typesetters and scribes have gathered many centuries – indeed even millenia – of experience how to keep legibility of a text at a high level. One of the aspects that they found is that having too little text of a paragraph on the end of a page – or at the beginning of a new page – makes the reader stumble over it, thus interrupting the flow of reading. In other words: these are established _best practices_. While more and more reading indeed happens on-screen (where there are no pages in the traditional sense), there are also a lot of readers who prefer to print out longer and more complex texts for "offline" reading. Not only to be independent of the network, but also because it is easier to read from paper, and also easier to actually remember later what has been read. [see original comment]