Suggestions for widows-and-orphans

The following packages have something in common with the package widows-and-orphans. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.

• abspos: Absolute placement with coffins
• affilauthor: Tag author and affiliation information in a key-value style
• linebreaker: Prevent overflow boxes with LuaLaTeX
• booklet: Aids for printing simple booklets
• chet: LaTeX layout inspired by harvmac
• emptypage: Make empty pages really empty
• fullminipage: Minipage spanning a complete page
• hanging: Hanging paragraphs
• layaureo: A package to improve the A4 page layout
• midpage: Environment for vertical centring
• needspace: Insert pagebreak if not enough space
• pageno: Page number-only page styles
• rotpages: Typeset sets of pages upside-down and backwards
• semioneside: Put only special contents on left-hand pages in two sided layout
• savetrees: Optimise the use of each page of a LaTeX document
• truncate: Truncate text to a specified width
• vruler: Numbering text
• wordlike: Simulating word processor layout
• hardwrap: Hard wrap text to a certain character length
• nowidow: Avoid widows
• nccparskip: Modify skips between paragraphs
• tabto-ltx: “Tab” to a measured position in the line
• textpos: Place boxes at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page
• acrotex-web: Establish a page layout for an on-screen (PDF) document
• linegoal: A “dimen” that returns the space left on the line
• pdfcprot: Activating and setting of character protruding using pdfLaTeX
• hang: Environments for hanging paragraphs and list items
• grid-system: Page organisation, modelled on CSS facilities
• flowfram: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines
• genmpage: Generalization of LaTeX's minipages
• layouts: Display various elements of a document's layout