Re: Keeping Text Together

[Richard Light <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <34F57961.FD6A2960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chuck Darney
<cdarney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>...
>While it does a pretty good job of keeping text together, I want to be
>sure that each subordinate "SECTION" is all on one page if possible. 
>For example, if all of section levels 1, 2 and 3 can remain on a single
>page, good.  If not, level 3 would move to the next page to provide room
>for 1 & 2.  At the very least, I need to make sure that the SECTION
>TITLE stays with the following paragraphs.  The above code has left the
>TITLE on one page and subsequent paragraph on the next.
>
>Any suggestions on how I can control the breaking better?

My experience with keep (and keep-with-next, which you could use for
your titles to 'attach' them to the following para) is that it is pretty
effective but brutal, at least as implemented in the RTF back-end (as a
'keep-with-next' property on each paragraph).  As far as I know there is
no way to do the graceful strategy you outline.

I would use 'keep' only on the lowest-level sections, and use keep-with-
next to link all section titles to the first paragraph of the relevant
section.  If you try to do more than this, it will undo what you have
achieved for the low-level sections.

Richard Light.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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