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From: <speter@mail.dandy.net>
Subject: Re: widow and orphan control
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:45:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503300045.j2U0jEi9021935@rastaban.dandy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050329232437.GA30038@localhost.localdomain>

On 3/29/2005, "Paul Tremblay" <phthenry@iglou.com> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-30  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-29  3:04 Paul Tremblay
2005-03-29 23:24 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-30  0:45   ` speter [this message]
2005-03-30  6:53   ` Hans Hagen
2005-03-30  9:53     ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-30 14:29       ` phthenry
2005-03-30 23:23         ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-30 23:03       ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-30 23:02     ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-31  7:11       ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-28 15:57       ` Using modes Matthias Weber
2005-04-28 19:00         ` Willi Egger
2005-04-28 21:43           ` Matthias Weber
2005-04-28 21:47           ` Matthias Weber
2005-04-28 22:17             ` David Munger
2005-03-30  7:31   ` widow and orphan control Patrick Gundlach
2005-03-30 23:05     ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-30  9:35   ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-30  4:03 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-30  7:24   ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-03-30 23:08     ` Paul Tremblay

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