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From: alexande@snuffy.cs.unc.edu (Geoffrey D. Alexander)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX: widow lines
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Date: 15 Mar 91 00:53:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.212743.20145@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
|alexande@grover.cs.unc.edu (Geoffrey D. Alexander) writes:
|
||Is there a general way to avoid widow lines in LaTeX?  In particular, I would
||like to avoid a single line followed by display math at the top of a page.
||Also, having the display math at the top the page is not vaiable soltion; I
||would rather have two lines of text followed by the display math.
|
|Hm. This question once again shows that Lamport doesn't
|treat the TeX primitives in his book sufficiently.
|Comment in general for LaTeX users:
|buy the TeX book too, for more info on math and such.
|
|The above question can be answered as follows:
|the parameters \widowpenalty and \displaywidowpenalty
|control exactly the two phenomena described.
|Currently they are 150 and 50 respectively,
|try setting them to 1000 or so. If you set them
|to 10000 TeX will absolutely never break in these
|places, which may be a bit too rigorous.
|
|Victor.

I was aware of these commands.  The questions is can I use them in LaTeX?
If so, where and how do I specify them?

Thanks,
Geoff