General ⇒ LaTex creates new page with only few words

[Sapientum]

Hi,

I has this textpiece that almost fits on one page. The problem is that the second page only consists of a few words. So I was wondering if there exists a command in LaTex that forces textpieces not to end with only one line/or a few words standing alone on a new page....?

[localghost]

The effects you describe are called widows and orphans. You can avoid them by adding some commands in your preamble.

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\clubpenalty10000
\widowpenalty10000

As an alternative, you can enlarge the affected page by a few a lines.

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\enlargthispage{2\baselineskip}

Best regards an welcome on Board
Thorsten