On 11/16/05, Juraj Fedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After reading a doc I started writing with latex, and it is
> quite easy. As sugested above there are many question poping
> while using it. One that bother me most right now is about
> orphans and widows lines. I thought latex will take care of this
> by default, but it does not in my case. I can fix this case by
> case with explicit \pagebreak and \enlargethispage but is there
> some macro (or something) that can fix this globaly?
You can prevent widows by putting
\widowpenalty=9999
in the preamble (between \documentclass{...} and \begin{document}).
For orphans, it's
\clubpenalty=9999
You can set these smaller as well, which tells LaTeX that it's not
quite so bad to leave widows and orphans. In general, I'd suggest
leaving the defaults as-is. If you end up with a few pages that have
problems when you're all done with your revisions, you can start
tweaking the page breaks one at a time. Often a change of a word or
two will change the number of lines in a paragraph, which will also
change page breaks. Make sure you re-run latex after each change
(starting with changes at the beginning), since one change in page
breaking will often cascade through a number of pages.
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
