TUGboat 42:1 (2021)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Crazy Little Thing Called Glue

Summary: specifying and fixing spacing, horizontal and vertical; and floats.

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Author: Carla Maggi

Publication: TUGboat volume 42, number 1 (2021), pages 34-39

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/42-1/tb130duck-glue
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Category: Tutorials

Difficulty: Intermediate

References:

1. E. Gregorio. Recollections of a spurious space catcher. TUGboat 36(2):149–161, 2015. tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-2/tb113gregorio.pdf
2. D.E. Knuth. The TeXbook, vol. A of Computers and Typesetting. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, USA, 1986.
3. F. Mittelbach. How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? TUGboat 35(3):248–254, 2014. tug.org/TUGboat/tb35-3/tb111mitt-float.pdf
4. F. Mittelbach. Managing forlorn paragraph lines (a.k.a. widows and orphans) in LaTeX. TUGboat 39(3):246–251, 2018. tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-3/tb123mitt-widows.pdf