Automatically Removing Widows and Orphans with lua-widow-control

Max Chernoff

Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu (2022)

  • Volume: 032, Issue: 1-4, page 49-76
  • ISSN: 1211-6661

Abstract

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The lua-widow-control package, for plain LuaTeX/LuaLaTeX/ConTeXt/OpTeX, removes widows and orphans without any user intervention. Using the power of LuaTeX, it does so without stretching any vertical glue or shortening any pages or columns. Instead, lua-widow-control automatically lengthens a paragraph on a page or column where a widow or orphan would otherwise occur. To use the lua-widow-control package, all that most LaTeX users need do is place in their preamble. No further changes are required.

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Chernoff, Max. "Automatically Removing Widows and Orphans with lua-widow-control." Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu 032.1-4 (2022): 49-76. <http://eudml.org/doc/298737>.

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author = {Chernoff, Max},
journal = {Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu},
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