[texhax] having words breaking over the pages

krishan gopal goswami krishan_gopi at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 29 10:59:43 CET 2004


Thank You Philip,

I will look into this.

Thanks
Krishan Gopal Goswami

--- "Philip TAYLOR [PC87S-O/XP]" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
wrote:
> 
> 
> krishan gopal goswami wrote:
> > 
> > Respected Sir,
> > 
> > I am a normal TeX user, I am facing problem of
> > hyphenated break at the end of the page, which can
> be
> > removed by inserting \break command before the
> word
> > which  is breaking over the pages or by having it
> in
> > \hbox{wordbreaoverpages}, is there any solution
> (like
> > some penalty variables such as \widowpenalty and
> > \clubpenalty for widow and orphans) to protect the
> > hyphenation of words at page break.
> > 
> > I found a variable named \brokenpenalty which can
> be
> > set to avoid hyphenation of words at page break
> but
> > other problem arises with this is that the last
> line
> > which was having hyphenated word break at the end,
> > moves to next page, that is not right solution
> > actually line should not move to next page, just
> only
> > the last word (word breaking over pages) should
> either
> > adjusted on same page or move to next page.
> > 
> > Waiting for your kind support and thanking you in
> > advance.
> 
> Not possible, I fear : TeX breaks paragraphs into
> lines
> asynchronously w.r.t. breaking galleys into pages,
> and
> thus (in standard TeX, at least) there can be no
> feedback
> from the page-breaking algorithm to the
> line-breaking 
> algorithm.  With some work you could probably devise
> a multi-pass approach which detected infelicitous
> hyphens
> at page breaks and fed back information for TeX to
> use on
> a subsequent pass; TeX would then adjust the
> line-breaking
> parameters for the paragraph(s) in question.  Not a
> task
> to be underaken lightly, though ...
> 
> Philip Taylor


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