Re: widow and orphan control

[Paul Tremblay <phthenry@iglou.com>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:53:31AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >What I would need is some type of macro that can determine how much
> >space is left on the page. If the space is less than some small,
> >pretermined amount (say, 24 points, for example), then put the title on
> >the next page, or put in a \blank[24pt, flexible]
> >
> >I know nothing about writing macros, or if this is possible. 
> 
> \testpage[24pt]
> 
> 

This produces an unwanted "pt" in my text.

But if I use:

\testpage[3] 

I get some very interesting result. It almost seems from my tests that
ConTeXt will break if it can't put 3 more "lines" on the page. Almost,
anyway. If I have spaces as in:

\testpage[3]
Title\par
\blank[24pt]

The code doesn't quite work. It might even make an ugly orphan of poor
title. In that case I have to increase the option in \testpage to 5 or 6
to work. 

So what exactly does the argument stand for? This command might be
really useful.

Thanks

Paul

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