Technologically, craftsmen were ready to follow Gutenberg’s example, opening presses across Europe. But they could only guess at what to print, and the public saw no particular need to buy books. The books they knew, manuscript texts, were valuable items and were copied to order. The habit of spending money to read something a printer had decided to publish was an alien one.
helps suppress widows and orphans. Setting the values to 10000 will
completely eliminate them, but sometimes at the expense of typesetting
quality elsewhere on a page.
The list environment has a number of format parameters which can be set in the second parameter of the environment. The various parameters are listed below and in the accompanying figure. The vertical-space parameters are rubber lengths; the horizontal-space parameters are rigid.