[NTG-context] Re: Lost in the murky detail of designing a page layout

Guy Worthington writes: Hello Guy,

I think is due to TeX trying very hard not to generate a widow line.

Even after fiddling around with \looseness, I couldn't force TeX to add the 37th line. I've a feeling that if you come across a pathological case like the above, you really have to follow Knuth's advice and rewrite the paragraph.

I was playing with \widowpenalty but it did not help. But setting \brokenpenalty=0 works fine (although it is not nice to have a hyphen as the last line) Patrick