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Controlling Orphans in SwiftUI Text: Uncovering the Undocumented avoidsOrphans
Summary
This blog post discusses a specific behavior of SwiftUI's Text regarding orphaned words in paragraphs and the impacts this has on formatting in narrow containers or mixed typesetting. It highlights an undocumented feature known as avoidsOrphans, which prevents single words from standing alone, but may create formatting issues.
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