

You can specify how many lines must remain together. Use these options to allow paragraphs to split across pages or columns but require at least 2 or more lines to remain together at the bottom or top of a page or column. A widow is the last line of a paragraph which appears alone at the top of the next page or column. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph printed alone at the bottom of a page or column. Widows and orphans are typographic terms. Keep with next paragraph is appropriate for headings or the lead-in sentence to a list, to ensure that it is not the last paragraph on a page. If it does not fit on the bottom of one page, the entire paragraph moves to the top of the next. The Options section of the Text Flow page (Figure 200) of the Paragraph Style dialog box provides settings to control what happens when a paragraph does not fit on the bottom of a page:ĭo not split paragraph means that the paragraph is never split across two pages. If you do not like the default settings, you can change them on the Text Flow page of the Paragraph Style dialog box. Writer automatically flows text from one page to the next.
