Re: [NTG-context] widow and orphan control

On 3/29/2005, "Paul Tremblay" wrote:

I've hunted around the web quite a bit, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. I tried:

clubpenalty=-600 widowpenalty=-600

But this had no effect.

You just told TeX that it's a good idea to have widows and orphans. Negative numbers mean there's less of a penalty for widows and orphans. Try assigning a high positive number (up to 10000). (150 is the default in Plain TeX.) Steve