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Dynamic between-paragraph spacing for stretching content across the whole page.

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Description

Description

Currently, the widow and orphan prevention in Typst leads to different lengths of the pages, similar to the \raggedbottom behavior in LaTeX.
For books, thesis, and other multipage texts, I'd prefer, if the spacing between paragraphs could be dynamically adjusted, to keep the length of a page consistent, similar to \flushbottom in LaTeX.

Example showing the spacing at the bottom of the page:

#set par(justify: true)
#set page(footer: line(length: 100%), footer-descent: 0cm)

#lorem(525)

#lorem(140)

#lorem(100)

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And with a different word count, so that there is no spacing at the bottom:

#set par(justify: true)
#set page(footer: line(length: 100%), footer-descent: 0cm)

#lorem(525)

#lorem(140)

#lorem(100)

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(My apologies, if this is a duplicate, but I could not find anything related to this in the issues)

Use Case

As mentioned before, books and other long texts look cleaner with "flushed" pages.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the provided Typst examples and comparing the resulting page lengths and paragraph spacing. Investigate the pagination and layout behavior responsible for widow and orphan prevention; done means multipage text can dynamically adjust paragraph spacing to produce consistently filled pages without disrupting existing layout rules.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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