On 09/09/2013 04:25 PM, Gordon Cooper wrote:
Is there a simple answer to the typesetting widow & orphan problem in Lyx/latex? I see that there are various suggestions offered in the manuals but they all seem to result in the need for a bit of text adjustment (fiddling) as the final step before printing.
If you google "clubpenalty widowpenalty" you'll find lots of discussion of this kind of thing, e.g., here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=widows You can force LaTeX never to allow widows or orphans by setting the two comments I mentioned to insanely high values, e.g.: \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000 But this can cause other problems, since LaTeX is already leaving an orphan (say) only when it has little other choice. Generally, it really is best to leave this until everything else is done, and then make adjustments if necessary. Richard
