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Thanks for that -- works perfectly

Sorry if answered before, I didn't quite know what to search for...

The problem is either related to 'geometry' or 'fncychap' -- the pages with the Chapter headings have nothing at the header, but the following pages have a line at the top of the page... How do I remove this please?

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Wow, that is embarrassing. Thank you, it works fine now.
I set up the command in Texmaker to auto-fill... but I set up with the wrong brackets. The Figures were all ok {}{} because I was copy/pasting from a template that all my figures are based on. But for the occassional table, I was typing ...

I noticed a strange problem using the \caption[shortcaption]{longcaption} , it seems to behave differently between the Figure and Table environments?

Note - I have created a command in the preamble so that I get a short caption only in the LOF, then for the actual figure the short caption is ...

Sorry I don't understand what you mean by "workflow"...?

Thank you for the link -- I will look into that in more detail. So the widow/orphan penalty is not just for new (blank) pages, it applies when *any* paragraph is split to the next page? I didn't realise that.

I am starting a new paragraph ...

Hi,
I'm writing a thesis which has mostly text and figures. Figures are inserted as [htbp] or [hbp] if I want to push it to the bottom. Often I will get a page with a single line of text, then a figure (might be half a page -- ie small enough for Latex to want to place the float 'inline'), then the ...