The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

3. TEXT AND FONTSIf you need to use a minipage as a stand-alone item in a widely spaced text then youmay need to use the vminipage environment instead to get the before and after spacingcorrect.3.4 OVERFULL LINESTeX tries very hard to keep text lines justified while keeping the interword spacing asconstant as possible, but sometimes fails and complains about an overfull hbox.\fussy \sloppy\begin{sloppypar} ... \end{sloppypar}\midsloppy\begin{midsloppypar} ... \end{midsloppypar}The default mode for LaTeX typesetting is \fussy where the (variation of) interwordspacing in justified text is kept to a minimum. Following the \sloppy declaration theremay be a much looser setting of justified text. The sloppypar environment is equivalentto:{\par \sloppy ... \par}Additionally the class provides the \midsloppy declaration (and the midsloppyparenvironment) which allows a setting somewhere between \fussy and \sloppy. Using\midsloppy you will get fewer overfull lines compared with \fussy and fewer obviouslarge interword spaces than with \sloppy. I have used \midsloppy for this manual; ithasn’t prevented overfull lines or noticeably different interword spaces, but has markedlyreduced them compared with \fussy and \sloppy respectively.3.5 SLOPPYBOTTOMTeX does its best to avoid widow and orphan lines — a widow is where the last line of aparagraph ends up at the top of a page, and an orphan 5 is when the first line of a paragraphis at the bottom of a page.The following is the generally suggested method of eliminating widows and orphans,but it may well result in some odd looking pages, especially if \raggedbottom is not used.\clubpenalty=10000\widowpenalty=10000\raggedbottom\enlargethispage{〈length〉}You can use \enlargethispage to add or subtract to the text height on a particular pageto move a line forwards or backwards between two pages.Here is one person’s view on the matter:5 Knuth uses the term ‘club’ instead of the normal typographers’ terminology.50