Poor hyphenation, usually carried out automatically where words are broken in the wrong place in justified typesetting.
when typesetting has resulted in a poor appearance of the work or introduced the possibly of a loss of meaning simply because of where the divisions between lines or pages fall, the result is called a bad break. Editors differ in their definitions of bad breaks. A WIDOW is a bad break. Others may occur when part of a hyphenated word is carried to the next page, when a hyphen inserted in a word to make a line come out even results in a possible misreading of the word (as when one cannot tell whether "re-creation" or "recreation" is meant), or when a blank line supposed to represent a change of scene falls at the bottom or the top of a page. An editor may have to alter the text to avoid the bad break, and if so the author will not be consulted.
An unattractive or illogical beginning or end of a page, a line of type, or a poorly hyphenated word.
any page or column that results in a widow, orphan, an incorrectly hyphenated word or the break to another line of two works that should stay together.
an incorrect word division
In composition, starting a page or ending a paragraph with a 'widow'.
Division of a word on the wrong syllable at the end of a line or division of a paragraph so that only one line, or part of a line, carries over to the next page. (See widow)
In page markup, any of a variety of unsightly or misleading series of type, such as a paragraph ending of only one word at the top of a page (called a widow), a subhead on the last line of a page, beginning a page with a hyphenated word, and so on.
inappropriate, unattractive or illegible word hyphenation at the end of a line of type.
Refers to widows or orphans in text copy; or a break that does not make sense of the phrasing of a line of copy, causing awkward reading.
A line break that is visually jarring, such as a page that begins with the suffix "ing" or a column that contains a single word.
A typesetting term used to describe the starting of a page or ending a paragraph with a single word. Commonly referred to as a widow.