LaTeX's floats cannot be split across pages. Sometimes, however, you want to have a table or figure that doesn't fit on one page. The easiest way is to split these into multiple table or figure environments
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.
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.