[texhax] question about handing sentences

[Steve Peter]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Roseray wrote:

> I am preparing my thesis using latex. I have have multiple "orphans" 
> ("hanging words or sentences") at the tops of several pages. My thesis 
> coordinator doesn't like that. He suggests me to fix them by either 
> moving a sentence fragment to
> the bottom of the previous page, or add an extra
> line of text to the top of the next page to have at least two
> lines of text. But I don't know how to do that. Who could help about 
> that?

Try putting in your preamble:

\widowpenalty=10000
\clubpenalty=250 % increase this if you need to

Or you can manually handle things with

\enlargethispage{\baselineskip} or
\enlargethispage{-\baselineskip}

on individual pages to make the page one line longer or shorter.

Steve