and other such means that fix one thing but break another. tracking values, by using vertically justified pages etc.
and quite frankly, I rather take this than mechanically calculated AI laid out pages where widows and orphans are (obsessively) avoided simply by auto adjusting e.g. So what you get is typically this (not to mention typos that often indicate that not even Word spelling check was ever applied on text): I find it hard to believe that the big publishing houses do all this manually.
Though I appreciate Publisher, if I can't do the above, it really doesn't provide much improvement over just laying out the book in Word, especially since a long book slows Publisher to a 15 second between actions crawl. I am relatively new to AP and have seen some posts the suggest that the baseline grid might help, but I couldn't figure out how it might.Īm I asking for something that is just beyond the capabilities of (any) software? Do they have some special software? Or if not, is there some way to do this in AP? I've tried all kinds of combinations of settings.
I had assumed that programs like Indesign and AP would do this "automatically." By that I mean you would set criteria for widows, orphans, keep lines together, hyphenation, etc and then the program would make whatever adjustments were needed in character spacing needed so the book would end up with the same number of lines on each page, even if it had to add or subtract pages in the overall book. It is a cumbersome process that can take days. This often requires rewriting if the text is a lot of dialogue in short chapters. Since Word's widow and orphan control often results in an unequal number of lines on a page (making spreads ugly), my workflow was to turn off W+O control, hyphenate, and then manually fix each W and O by adjusting character spacing, etc. So, you could end up with one word on a line by itself at the beginning of a page.I'm laying out a long book. Widows and orphans can be distracting, but widows can be more so because they are at the end of a paragraph, and the last line of a paragraph can be any length, even a single word. Or, maybe you’re following a style guide that mandates no widows and orphans. Whether you enable the widow/orphan control setting or not is a matter of which one bothers you most, widows and orphans or the blank lines. This is normal because lines have to be moved to get rid of the widow or orphan. Using widow and orphan control can frequently cause extra blank lines to appear at the bottom of a page or column. You could turn on this setting in your paragraph styles in a Word template so you don’t have to worry about applying it manually. When you turn on widow and orphan control for a paragraph, neither widows nor orphans will occur for that paragraph when the document repaginates. You cannot control only the widow or only the orphan for a paragraph. Widow and orphan control is applied separately for each paragraph. If the paragraph had a widow, the whole rest of the paragraph is moved to the next page to rejoin the last line. In the case of an orphan, like in our example at the beginning of this article, the single first line of the paragraph moves to the next page to be joined with the rest of the paragraph. Under Pagination, check the ‘Widow/Orphan control” box and then click “OK”.
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