carl crooned,
> >I suppose I can make the floats a bit bigger, but this gives new
> >problems if they get longer captions . . .
> A simpler way to cheat might be to increase \floatsep or \textfloatsep, to
> artificially decrease the amount of space that LaTeX will try to fill with text
> on these pages. Then the normal widow/orphan stuff should take over.
On further review, it seems that if I can somehow tell latex that under
all circumstances, it must put at least 4 lines of text together, or
none at all, I solve alll the problems. There's another page that I've
found with a problem: after putting the figure "here", it prints a
single line of text after it. Since it's from the middle of a
paragraph, it's neither a widow or an orphan.
rick
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