From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19479 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: widow and orphan control Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:49 +0200 Message-ID: <424BA2B5.6000904@wxs.nl> References: <20050329030458.GA4547@localhost.localdomain> <20050329232437.GA30038@localhost.localdomain> <424A4CEB.9030005@wxs.nl> <20050330230222.GE13966@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112253061 19063 80.91.229.2 (31 Mar 2005 07:11:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 31 09:10:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGtpN-0002fD-GF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D49C1280C; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:12:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28831-02; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4F3127BF; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B191127BF for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 28786-03 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829BC127B8 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2V7Bn78026823 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:11:49 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6597618F33; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:53:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.54] (unknown [10.100.1.54]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DD417C80 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:53:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050330230222.GE13966@localhost.localdomain> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/744/Fri Mar 4 04:01:45 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19479 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19479 Paul Tremblay wrote: > 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. actually it's \testpage[noflines][dimensions] normally you will indeed use a value of 5 or 6 (whitespacee + title of two lines + whitespace + first line of paragraph) i don't know how you place titles, but why not: \definesection[mytitle][subsubsubsubsubject] \mytitle{...} because that takes care of most situations Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------