[NTG-context] Re: “breaking news”

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 10/1/2024 9:16 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 01.10.24 um 00:17 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>>> It’s a novel of ~650 pages with a big range of paragraph lengths 
>>> (some dialogues with short lines as well as paragraphs that span 
>>> pages). “Of course” you often get a 3-line paragraph over a page 
>>> break – it’s hard to avoid widows and orphans.
>>
>> depends .. three liners can be made to work in fact one should then 
>> use \widowpenalties and \clubpenalties with a high value for the first 
>> two entries (and maybe disable them to overlap)
> 
> I have
> \setpenalties\widowpenalties{2}{8000}
> \setpenalties\clubpenalties{2}{10000}
> 
> Does this make sense? While I saw in your demonstrations that it’s 
> possible to set different penalties per line, I never tried.

That's kind of high: a four line paragraph now gets

line
10000
line
18000
line
8000
line

> Otherwise, I found out the easiest solution is a \vbox, VZ does the 
> rest. Should have thought of that earlier, would have saved me a few hours.

often pretty bad spacing (you can also start a paragraph with 
\linepanelty10000)

Hans

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