hi there,
Hugh from PressBooks here. We've got a University Press client, and have produced for them a PDF template output, from PressBooks/Prince.
They are generally happy with the output, but there is one deal-breaker: bottom-balancing is not good enough.
That is, the bottom of the body text on recto and verso should align, but often does not.
See:
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-3.png)
and
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-2.png)
and
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-3.png)
There are two things that might help:
* we have not implemented hyphenation correctly
* we have widows/orphans set to 3 lines ... which is maybe too punishing?
Questions:
* are there any other Prince techniques to address this issue?
* is dynamic adjustment of line-spacing (to ensure consistent tops & bottoms) ... feasible? desirable? crazy?
Hugh from PressBooks here. We've got a University Press client, and have produced for them a PDF template output, from PressBooks/Prince.
They are generally happy with the output, but there is one deal-breaker: bottom-balancing is not good enough.
That is, the bottom of the body text on recto and verso should align, but often does not.
See:
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-3.png)
and
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-2.png)
and
![](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/983428/page-foot-3.png)
There are two things that might help:
* we have not implemented hyphenation correctly
* we have widows/orphans set to 3 lines ... which is maybe too punishing?
Questions:
* are there any other Prince techniques to address this issue?
* is dynamic adjustment of line-spacing (to ensure consistent tops & bottoms) ... feasible? desirable? crazy?