Title: Hyphenation creates widows?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Hyphenation creates widows?

 *  Resolved [ahcj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahcj/)
 * (@ahcj)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphenation-creates-widows/)
 * I’m not sure if this is intended or known behavior, but I’m getting “-ing” and
   the like as widows. Adjusting the widow settings does not seem to affect this.
 * Is this known behavior? Is this a bug?
 * I can of course mark last words of each paragraph with class=”noTypo” to prevent
   it, but it would be nice if preventing this were automatic.
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 *  Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/)
 * (@pputzer)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphenation-creates-widows/#post-6987042)
 * I’ll have a look at it if it can be integrated with dewidowing, but right now
   this is not so much a bug but a non-feature. However, you can control whether
   hyphenation occurs for these cases via the `min_after_hyphenation` property.
 * If doesn’t help your use case, I need you to provide both the exact settings 
   for hyphenation and widow control (in addition to example input and output strings).
 *  Plugin Author [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/)
 * (@pputzer)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphenation-creates-widows/#post-8992272)
 * I assume the issue has been resolved.

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 * Last reply from: [pepe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pputzer/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyphenation-creates-widows/#post-8992272)
 * Status: resolved