Re: How to: get TeX to warn me when it breaks a chunk of text over pages.

["Johannes Hüsing" <hannes@ruhrau.de>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:57:19PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> As part of writing the recipe book that I am working on I want to
> achieve something a bit non-standard in terms of TeX page breaking.
> 

Not that it's non-standard ... within TeX you can set the \penalty in 
vertical mode to a large negative value between two recipes.

[...]
> 
> I would rather have (and have to fill) whitespace on the page than a
> page break in the middle of a recipe.
> 

In ConTeXt encouraging pagebreks is done with

\page[bigpreference] 

and it is better to encourage pagebreaks than to discourage them elsewhere. 

To my mind the bigpreference is sometimes not big enough. I once typeset 
a final exam with multiple choice questions. I did not manage to suppress
all page breaks within questions.

Greetings

Johannes
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