From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19437 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: widow and orphan control Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:31 +0200 Message-ID: <424A4CEB.9030005@wxs.nl> References: <20050329030458.GA4547@localhost.localdomain> <20050329232437.GA30038@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112165606 30041 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2005 06:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Mar 30 08:53:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGX4B-0005ZO-UP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:52:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D57512859; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14030-07-4; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F5F12843; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5617612843 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14030-07-3 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4D81281D for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2U6rWfX030211 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8C04918224; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:35:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.54] (unknown [10.100.1.54]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEF717D57 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 06:35:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050329232437.GA30038@localhost.localdomain> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/705/Fri Feb 11 17:51:32 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19437 Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:04:58PM -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote: > >>How does one prevent orphans (the first line nof a paragraph on the last >>line of a page) and widows (the last line of a paragraph on a new page)? >> >>If I have the title of a new section that must not be the last line of a >>page, how can I do this? >> > > > 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. > > What I would need is some type of macro that can determine how much > space is left on the page. If the space is less than some small, > pretermined amount (say, 24 points, for example), then put the title on > the next page, or put in a \blank[24pt, flexible] > > I know nothing about writing macros, or if this is possible. \testpage[24pt] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------