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Article #11558Re: Widow/Orphan
From: C.E. Thompson
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1991 19:36
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1991 19:36
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In article <1991Aug30.090347.17828@fys.ruu.nl> spit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit) writes: >In <1991Aug29.200721.4734@uoft02.utoledo.edu> fax0474@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes: >>What on earth are widow/orphan lines and clubs??? I'm at a total loss, and >>curious too! Thanks, Alex Mak > > >A widowline is the fist line of a paragraph occurring as the last line >of a page. A club/orphan-line is the last line of a paragraph occurring >as the first line of a page. Precisely (modulo spelling) the wrong way round! A club line is the first line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the bottom of a page; a widow line is the last line of a paragraph appearing by itself at the top of a page. This is the nomenclature behind TeX's \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty, at any rate. Some sources refer to both kinds as widow lines, and some would only consider them a problem over an odd->even page boundary. Chris Thompson JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,4edf49683c2789ba X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: f4a99,4edf49683c2789ba X-Google-Attributes: gidf4a99,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-02 13:06:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!news From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex Subject: Re: Widow/Orphan Message-ID: <1991Sep2.193623.7030@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 2 Sep 91 19:36:23 GMT References: <9124122.14898@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1991Aug29.171100.4378@csrd.uiuc.edu> <1991Aug29.200721.4734@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1991Aug30.090347.17828@fys.ruu.nl> Reply-To: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 21