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9 Feb
2003
9 Feb
'03
11:31 a.m.
Guy Worthington
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