No widows and orphans
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I do not want to have widows and orphans. Because of this I use: \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000 But this has no effect. Still the last two lines of a paragraph are put on the next page instead of the complete paragraph. I somewhere read about using: setups=*strict so I now have: \setuplayout[ header=0mm, setups=*strict, ] This makes it a little better. Now three lines are put on the other page. Is it possible to get the complete paragraph on the other page? -- Cecil Westerhof
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On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I do not want to have widows and orphans. Because of this I use: \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000
But this has no effect. Still the last two lines of a paragraph are put on the next page instead of the complete paragraph.
I think you are confusing things here: orphans and widows refer to single lines on the following/preceding page. So if you get two lines, you get exactly what you ask for. If I understand you correctly, you do not want to break paragraphs vertically at all? Thomas
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2011/3/1 Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I do not want to have widows and orphans. Because of this I use: \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000
But this has no effect. Still the last two lines of a paragraph are put on the next page instead of the complete paragraph.
I think you are confusing things here: orphans and widows refer to single lines on the following/preceding page. So if you get two lines, you get exactly what you ask for. If I understand you correctly, you do not want to break paragraphs vertically at all?
Okay, I did not understand the terminology correctly. Yes, in this particular case I would like not to break them. What would also be acceptable is when there are at least five lines on the page. -- Cecil Westerhof
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/1 Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I do not want to have widows and orphans. Because of this I use: \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000
But this has no effect. Still the last two lines of a paragraph are put on the next page instead of the complete paragraph.
I think you are confusing things here: orphans and widows refer to single lines on the following/preceding page. So if you get two lines, you get exactly what you ask for. If I understand you correctly, you do not want to break paragraphs vertically at all?
Okay, I did not understand the terminology correctly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_%28typesetting%29
-- luigi
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Cecil Westerhof
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luigi scarso
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Thomas A. Schmitz