From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_H=FCsing?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to: get TeX to warn me when it breaks a chunk of text over pages. Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:41:36 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020308134136.C727@ruhrau.de> References: <87u1rr1g4w.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397651 17023 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <87u1rr1g4w.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7168 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 -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain