Text Formatting ⇒ \looseness won't work

[revberaldo]

Hello you all.

I've been trying to fix widows and orphans in LaTeX. I found a handful of ideas, from \enlargethispage to using \pagebreak and \nopagebreak between paragraphs and so forth. But the nicest idea I found is to use \looseness.

My problem is: no matter where I put, let's say, \looseness=1, it won't work. I tried putting it at the very beginning of a paragraph, a line before it, and after the last word. I even tried changing the looseness to negative values or absurd ones (e.g. \looseness=50), but it just doesn't make any difference.

I'm sending a example attached to this post. You can compile it and see the orphan between the paragraph started with “\looseness-1” and the other right after it.

Thanks in advance.

[localghost]

This command is not the right measure for preventing widows and orphans. Put some other lines into the preamble instead.

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\clubpenalty10000
\widowpenalty10000
 
 
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Thorsten

[revberaldo]

This command is not the right measure for preventing widows and orphans. Put some other lines into the preamble instead.

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\clubpenalty10000
\widowpenalty10000
 
 
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As soon as the problem is sorted out, please ac according to Section 3 of the Board Rules (last two paragraphs).


Best regards
Thorsten

Ah!, I forgot to mention that. I configured \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty. But then pdflatex created a page break between the paragraphs in question. I was wondering if there isn't a way to force \looseness to work.