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Re: DropTagItem and Line Breaking
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: DropTagItem and Line Breaking |
Date: |
Tue, 7 May 2002 11:51:07 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.2.5.1i |
Hi,
The same problem occurs with sections and section titles: you can get the
section title at the bottom of a page and its body on the next page
(orphan/widow) which does not look good.
Would there also be a way to make it unbreakable?
Thanks,
Ludovic.
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:13:31AM +1000, Jeff Kingston wrote:
> You're right, there is nothing you can do at the user level
> to get this behaviour.
>
> I've had a quick look at the implementation and it looks feasible
> to add another symbol, say @DropTagItemUnbreakable (@DTIU), which
> will bind the label to the first paragraph of the item. I'll try
> it out and hopefully add some such thing to the next release.
>
> Meanwhile, you'll have to insert a @ListNewPage symbol before
> the item that is going wrong. I know this is not a fully
> satisfactory solution, but it's all there is at the moment.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Mon, 06 May 2002 19:38:41 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In lout 2.35, I've several @DropTagItem lists.
> > Occasionally, when one of these lists falls on a
> > pagebreak, the label will be on one page, and the
> > dropped text will be on the next page. Is there a way
> > to keep the label and dropped text together?
> >
> > In cases of a multi-paragraph section of dropped text, I
> > would think it good to keep the label and first
> > paragraph of dropped text together.
> >
> > I don't think @OneRow is the answer to this problem, as
> > it is unclear to me where one would place @OneRow.
> >
> > Below is a small example of the style list I am talking
> > about. By inserting this into a lout document and
> > repeating the @DTI line several times, one should be
> > able to see the effect that I describe above.
> >
> > @TaggedList
> > @DTI{label}{Dropped text under the label.}
> > @EndList
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
>
>
>
>