Todd Denniston wrote:
> Although I Generally like to force new major sections to start on a new
> page too, you can be a little gentler and ask LaTeX not to make widows[1]
> or orphans[2] most of the time anyway. The LaTeX way is to make it a
> penalty to create such a line, using \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty [3].
> I always put in my preamble:
> \widowpenalty=10000
> \clubpenalty=10000
> \raggedbottom
This is the preferred way, but sometimes, LaTeX still produces widows. Instead
of forced page breaks, you can use conditional page breaks in this case,
which only break pages when a given amount of space is not provided:
% In Preamble
\def\condbreak#1{\vskip 0pt plus #1\pagebreak[3]\vskip 0pt plus -#1\relax}
and in the document, e.g.
\condbreak{2\baselineskip}
inserts a pagebreak when there is less then 2 lines below.
Jürgen
