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Orphans and Widows.........................Bob Sander-Cederlof

James, a brother of Jesus Christ, wrote: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."  (chapter 1, verse 27, King James Version)

Of course, he was referring to real life and to real people with real needs, but it still serves to introduce this little announcement.

"Orphans" and "widows" are also terms used in word processing to describe the lamentable situation of one line of a paragraph being left all alone on one page, while the rest is on another page.  If that one line is the last line of a paragraph which won't quite fit, "she" is forced to the top of the next page, and is a widow.  If the lonely line is the first line of a paragraph, dwelling at the bottom of a page, bereft of the rest of its family on the following page, he or she is indeed an orphan.

High class word processors give you the option of automatically "visiting" orphans and widows "in their affliction".  Thanks to Bobby Deen, this feature is now (as of June 29th) included in the S-C Word Processor (whether high class or not).  When the feature is selected (by the "!or1" directive), orphans get moved to the next page and widows get squeezed onto the current page.

Bobby is also working on, and he says it is now functional but somewhat unfinished, a version that fully uses the 80-column display on the Apple //e.  We already had 80-column preview, but he is developing 80-column text display during edit/entry mode.
