Pleasure, that's what internet strangers are for!

Fantastic! Yeah it's kinda weird, all these options have various overlapping roles for keeping paragraph lines together, so it can be hard to know which one is causing problems when a bunch are turned on. Glad that sorted it out!

Woohoo, progress! What's the number you have in "Keep with next: (x) lines" right below the widowed lines setting? If it's above zero and you set it to zero, does the rest of the extra space go away?

For unstyled paragraphs, those settings will be in the generic paragraph styles tab! I might be completely off-base though…

It looks like the settings to prevent orphaned and widowed lines, are they turned on in your paragraph style?

I feel like depending on how much weight is given to the words of the dead, how much of their beliefs and opinions they bring with them in the afterlife and how stubborn they are about sticking to them, there would be a lot more friction to cultural progress?

Totally understandable! But also, as a social media hermit with one of those definitely weird-looking accounts, I wanted to drop a reply just in case this can spare me the block hammer – so, hi! 👋 Love the art, been following for years on the bird site!