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Old 08-21-2009, 10:26 AM   #13
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Ps.: Fixing this is utterly painstaking... regenerating the PDF takes 2-3 minutes, and since changes propagate other difficult to foresee changes in the rest of the chapter, frequent regeneration is unavoidable. Leaving me sitting utterly bored out of my mind while I wait for compilation to finish.
Yes, that's the drawback of PDF ebooks

And if you want it to be "perfect", you have to avoid widows and orphans, which I think I saw somewhere. In my PDFs, I chose to set \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty to 10000, and add some stretchability to \baselineskip; this results in no widows or orphans, but the lines are a bit spread out sometimes (it's not as bad as in printed books, because you see only a single page at a time, and you don't see the backpage either)
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