{widows-orphans} is about dealing with (typographic) widows (isolated lines created when paragraphs end on the first line of a page) and orphans (created when paragraphs start on the last line of a page). If you use this tag, add the more general {page-breaking} tag.
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How to prevent Latex to make a single line page break [duplicate]
I'm writing a memoir and sometimes I get this:
... Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim ...
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Evaluate typographical beauty of a document (widow, orphans, hyphens, etc) in order to optimize the page geometry
When finalizing documents, one of the last things I do is usually to play with the page geometry to improve the overall layout: get rid of a few orphans or widows, reduce the number of hyphenations, ...
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Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?
I have only basic knowledge of the TeX internals, so I hope what I am saying here is not complete nonsense. If I understand correctly, in TeX, horizontal positioning / line breaking is done using a ...
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How to avoid orphan or widow when using tcolorbox?
My MWE below should not be simplified anymore to avoid breaking my real scenario. The settings are tightly coupled.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a6paper,vmargin=15mm,hmargin=5mm]{geometry}
...
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How to not have widows and orphans without using raggedbottom
I know I can set \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty to 10 000 to make them “really bad”, but then TeX sees it equally bad to cut the page short when there is no vertical stretch (i.e. \parskip=0pt), and ...
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Avoiding widows by increasing the page size
Two related questions:
I think atm I feel that the best and easiest way to avoid widows and orphans is to let the affected pages differ a little in size. Almost no one would recognise it and -- even ...
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Using mdframed after a section heading
The following is a very contrived example, but it illustrates a problem I am unable to solve with the mdframed package. When the mdframed environment follows a section heading but there is ...
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Adding floating space between main text and footnotes
I have to typeset a text with several widows and lots of footnotes. The editor told me to leave an additional blank line between the main text and the footnotes and to use this space to print the ...
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Avoid widowed signature lines
I have documents created in XeLaTeX with signature lines appearing at the end of the document. Sometimes these signatures appear on pages by themselves i.e. without preceding content. I would like to ...
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How to avoid widow lines in Table of contents (TOC)
I have a Table of Contents page (the last page, page 3) which just has one line on it. Is there a way of manually editing it so, say, Chapter 3 starts on page 2, as opposed to straddling pages 1 and ...
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automatically to apply \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} when single-word-widow occurs
Sometimes I encounter this single word widows instance very often, please find the right hand page, topline scoundrel. My design strategy is to leave enough white space at the bottom margin, so when ...
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How to adjust last text on last page dynamically? [closed]
I am writing report and now improving look and feel of the report. I found that last section appears in last of page and its remaininng part on next page which does not look good.
How can i move ...
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Force hardspace in multiple citations
To cite multiple references, I'm using \cite{foo, bar}. Unfortunately, the second citation appears on a new page. Is there a way to force a hardspace between the two citations?
This is primarily a ...
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Supress page breaks before headings, allow orphans
I am trying to create a simple outline document (based on scrbook), that contains just headings (chapter, section, ...) and a few notes inbetween. For that, I removed the clearpage before a new ...
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Orphans when using the SIGCHI LaTeX style
The current SIGCHI template does contain some instructions to prevent orphans (\clubpenalty and \widowpenalty) but for some reason that isn't working for me. I tried increasing the penalties but that ...
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Remove/hide content if it would appear as an orphan [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
prevent “action” if top of page
I have some blocks of text, separated by a \hline. Because the LaTeX code is generated automatically from user-entered data, ...
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How to keep last n lines together in listing?
I have a large listing defined with lstlisting (listins-package). Now the listing reaches over three pages. On the last page there is only one line (the last line) of the listing.
I looks not very ...
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Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes?
I have found that setting \widowpenalty=10000\clubpenalty=10000 in the main document has not prevented widows and clubs from appearing occasionally in footnotes in a long and complex document I am ...
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Can I set an adjustable line spacing to avoid orphans and widows?
I have a relatively simple question. I'm compiling a large document and finding that I have a lot of pages that start with the last two lines of a paragraph. Is there a way to allow the line-spacing ...
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How can I avoid widows and orphans after displayed equations?
Edit: The original title of this question was "How can I avoid widows and orphans with the geometry package?" However, as egreg pointed out, the geometry package was not the cause of the problem. ...
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Finding all widows and orphans
There have been several questions about how to avoid widows and orphans, so let me first state that that is not the question here. I know I can try and tweak the settings but that it's still possible ...
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bigfoot: only break footnotes across double-page spread
The bigfoot handles the breaking of footnotes across pages quite well, but personally I don't like it if I have to turn the page to read a complete footnote.
Therefore my question: Is it possible to ...
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XeLaTeX, hyperref and page breaking [closed]
Using XeLaTeX, loading the hyperref package apparently changes the way in which (reconfigured) widow and orphan penalties work — so they reappear, just as if I had not altered the values for the ...
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dblfnote.sty with musuos.cls causes unbalanced footnotes
I’m the author of musuos.cls and while writing a paper with it I noticed that the dblfnote-package leads to unbalanced footnote columns
You can see that the left colum has one line less than the ...
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marginpar and orphans
How can I avoid orphan lines if I use \marginpar?
For example, here is a two-page document that does not have any orphans:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\clubpenalty=10000
...
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Quote environment with long reference at the end right – without widows
I need a quote-environment to end with source-references in a new line, flush right.
Simply using
\begin{quote}
QUOTED TEXT
\begin{flushright}
SOURCE
\end{flushright}
\end{quote}
...
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An unexpected value of \clubpenalty
In the following MWE, \clubpenalty has the expected default value of 150 at the begin of the document. However, a combination of a) a \section b) a paragraph c) a quote environment – in this ...
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Section headers not sticking with first paragraph
I'm seeing lots of section/subsection headers getting split up from their paragraphs across page and column boundaries. I've never seen this before, but I'm also using a class file that's new to me, ...
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Vertical spacing, pagination and ideal results
I found that the best way to avoid widows and orphans is setting penalties and using rubber lengths between paragraphs, for instance, \setlength{\parskip}{1pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}.
When I shared this ...
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1answer
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Heading at the bottom of the page
I'm typesetting a large document (phdthesis) with pdflatex and I'm using KOMAscriptand the scrreprtdocument class.
I was very surprised as I saw a heading (\subsubsection) standing at the bottom of a ...
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Avoiding orphans at the start of quote/quotation environments
To me, orphans -- page breaks after the first line of a paragraph -- are tolerable in the normal text body, and so I leave TeX's default settings (\clubpenalty=150) alone. On the other hand, I want to ...
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Large gaps between paragaphs VS avoiding widows / orphans
How to avoid widow and orphan lines, while also avoiding too large gaps appearing between the paragraphs on the previous page?
I figure that to strongly discourage widows and orphans, one would use a ...
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How to avoid heading orphan?
I want to get rid of pages ending with a heading title only.
I want at least 2 text rows following the heading title to make a better look.
What is the exact value to be passed to \Needspace*{} to ...
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How to avoid orphan line of multipage tabular?
There is an orphan line on page 2.
How to get rid of it?
Minimal Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=5cm,landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable,array}
...
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LaTeX produces bad, widowed line
I just found a widowed line in my PDF document, created by LaTeX. It looks something like this, see "sion" on the second page:
| blah blah expres- |
| 8 |
---------------------
...
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How do I prevent widow/orphan lines?
How do I prevent a line from appearing by itself:
Orphan: at the bottom of the page, or
Widow: at the top of the page?
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How to avoid widow lines after displayed equations
If a displayed equation is close to the bottom of the page, TeX likes to insert a page break even if the current paragraph contains only one more line after the equation, as e.g. in
... it follows ...
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Widow word on a page? I thought LaTeX wouldn't do that
Just had a surprise. I have a section in an article followed by a figure. The text flows over a page and ... one more word on the next page (which also includes the figure).
Yes, I added a ~ before ...
