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I have sections that flow over into the following page by about 1 or 2 \baselineskips. This is easy to solve with an \enlargethispage{} and prevents the 2-line widows. Lateron, I may make a few more changes, and everything reflows. Now the problem is that the page with the enlargethispage is still a little longer, unless I go back and remove it.

What I would rather tell latex is to be more tolerant just on this particular page about to meet its widowing niceness criteria, and that it should only apply at the current page.

Easy or hard?

ivo Welch
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    Perhaps you should rather focus on such adjustments only towards the end of the document, for exactly the reasons you mention ("...Later on, I may make a few more changes, ..."). – Werner Dec 03 '21 at 01:05
  • Very related: page breaking - automatically to apply \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} when single-word-widow occurs - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange // See also: How do I prevent widow/orphan lines? – user202729 Dec 03 '21 at 02:47
  • hard, but one thing is not to use \enlargethispage directly use a custom command such as \WibbleChapterAenlargethispage then you can easily define that to be nothing and reflow that chapter adding them back if needed without disturbing the rest of the document. – David Carlisle Dec 03 '21 at 07:50
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    It would be quite difficult to implement such a command, that needs trial runs of the output routine in order to decide whether the next page really has widow lines. Besides, if you use twoside typesetting, both pages in a spread should be enlarged, so you see that the problem is unsolvable. Leave such decision to the final revision step. – egreg Dec 03 '21 at 08:22
  • the problem is that my books are never full finished. I think they are finished, but then comes another change. this is worse for my almost done book on climate change (https://www.ivo-welch.info/teaching/moving-the-needle/), where not a day goes by without something else being interesting. (yes, I want a \WibbleChapterAenlargethispage.) I think widowpenalty solves the problem not with an \enlargethispage but with an earlier break only. – ivo Welch Dec 03 '21 at 22:42

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