lua-widow-control

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Is this something that one would like as default, ie included by LyX?

el

On 11/10/2021 10:21, CTAN Announcements wrote:
> Max Chernoff submitted the
> 
>                  lua-widow-control
> 
> package.
> 
> Version:  1.0.0 2021-10-09
> License:  other-free cc-by-sa-4
> 
> Summary description: Automatically remove widows and orphans from any
> document
> 
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>   
>   Lua-widow-control is a Plain TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package that removes
>   widows and orphans without any user intervention.  Using the power
>   of LuaTeX, it does so without stretching any glue or shortening any
>   pages.  Instead, lua-widow-control automatically lengthens a
>   paragraph on a page where a widow or orphan would otherwise occur.
> 
>   Unmodified TeX has very few ways of preventing widows and orphans.
>   In documents with figures, section headings, and equations, TeX can
>   stretch the vertical glue between items in order to prevent widows
>   and orphans, but many documents have no figures or headings.  TeX
>   can also shorten the page by 1 line, but this will give each page a
>   different length which can make a document look uneven.  The typical
>   solution is to strategically insert \looseness=1, but this requires
>   manual editing every time that the document is edited.
>   Lua-widow-control is essentially an automation of the \looseness
>   method: it uses Lua callbacks to find "stretchy" paragraphs, then it
>   lengthens them to remove widows and orphans.
> 
>   Lua-widow-control is compatible with all LuaTeX-based formats.  All
>   that is required is to load the package at the start of your
>   document.  
>   
>   To load: 
>     - Plain LuaTeX: \input lua-widow-control
>     - LuaLaTeX: \usepackage{lua-widow-control}
>     - ConTeXt (LMTX): \usemodule[lua-widow-control]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
>     https://ctan.org/pkg/lua-widow-control
> 
> The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
>     https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/lua-widow-control/
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