Widow Word on Widow Line . . .

[Richard Doll]

The System: Dell Precision 490 WorkStation, WinXP SP2, 2G mem, Dual 20-in 
Monitors, FM-7.2-w/upgrades, 2 80G SATA drives.

Project: 600pp SGML Catalog w/2-indicies.

Issue: After 10+ years of production, customer wishes to no longer need to 
mark proofs for *widowed widows*.

Widows are currently satisfactorily controlled with the Format> Paragraph> 
Pagination >Widow/Orphan Lines quantity.

The "Widowed Widow" is the last 2 lines of a paragraph in which the 
widowed/last  "line" contains only, a single word.

How can I control this occurance in FM.

Using VisualBasic, I can/have searched the SGML data file for the end of an 
Element "</".
Loop backwards to the "last" word-space preceeding the "</" and
replace this "found" space with the character entity   as defined in 
the ISOnum file.
What results is text of "\x11" which is exactly what the 7.2 Quick Reference 
p3.4 says to use in Standard Character Set Input.
Page 1.12 - Finding and Changing Special Characters says . . . to find 
NoBreakSpace . . . type \[space].

Is there something missing in my "SGML/Open" process or, is this a bug
Should I just Search for the text \x11 and replace each occurrence with 
\[space] or Esc[space]h or Cntrl[space].

All character entities that DO have glyphs, function quite well!

best to all,

dick doll
317.539.4857
sgmlindy at tds.net