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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 07:42:19 EDT
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- From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: page length, orphans and foot notes
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- Harry Falk writes:
-
- > this may sound like a FAQ, and maybe it is, but I could not trace
- > help in the NB archives at taunivm, although related questions turned up.
- > I want to print with HP IIp and I consider a consistent page length more
- > important than any lead-letters-ideologyorphans or widows. So, instead
- > of the 3 values for page length there is only one at the top of the file:
- > PL 63. This works fine, with lots of hairraising orphans and other
- > monsters. When the first footnote comes everything stays fine. But all
- > succeeding pages, without footnotes, behave as if there were a footnote,
- > i.e. they become shorter.
- > HELP, urgently needed...
-
- I'm not sure whether this will work, but you might try it. All three
- values in the PL delta are used by the program in determining page
- length. That doesn't mean they must all be different! The manual
- advises simply making them all identical if one wants to create a
- fixed page length without widows and orphans adjustment. Thus in your
- case use PL 63,63,63 and turn widow/orphan control off to avoid extra
- processing loops (i.e., set WD 0 and OP 0).
-
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