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From: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: No widows and orphans
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:56:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=52QLd4+v2J-g7=vQaR3DrJVMB3dT3NOyBHv7H@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81EF7354-974B-482F-A873-792E6D4AA8A2@uni-bonn.de>


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2011/3/1 Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>

>
> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-01 14:41 Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-01 14:50 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-03-01 14:56   ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2011-03-01 14:58     ` luigi scarso
     [not found] <mailman.1156.1298991796.4223.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2011-03-01 16:06 ` Philipp Stephani
2011-03-01 16:14   ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-01 16:17   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-01 17:05     ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-01 17:21       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-01 18:06         ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-01 19:19           ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-01 19:31             ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-01 19:53               ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-01 21:10                 ` Cecil Westerhof

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