The last line

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Hi,

as far as I know TeX has some internal rules (and penalties) for judging where to hyphenate words or not in order to keep a paragraph not too densed and not too loose. Some rules can be modified by commands like tolerance, spaceskip, emergencystretch et al.

Now, I want to have control over the last line. I would like to avoid syllables smaller than (for example) 4 letters being the only element in a paragraphs last line. Like this:

xxxx xx xxxxx xxxx
xx xxx xxxxxxx xx-
xxx.


Is there a way to make a kind of global definition for this for the entire document?


Thanks for any hints,

Steffen