Re: The whole (sub)section on a single page

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>  
>
>>Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>It doesn't need to automatically determine the subsection boundaries
>>>automatically (although this would be great), so I can write something
>>>like this:
>>>
>>>\startmaterialforonepage
>>>\subsection{split only if too long for one page}
>>>\dorecurse{10}{whatever comes here \dots }
>>>\stopmaterialforonepage
>>>      
>>>
>>Do you want something like this?
>>
>>   \long\def\startmaterialforonepage#1\stopmaterialforonepage%
>>     {\setbox0\vbox{#1}\ifdim\ht0<\textheight \page\fi #1}
>>    
>>
>
>Thak you, Taco. Yes, this is almost exactly what I wanted to do,
>except that I would substitute
>    \ifdim\ht0<\textheight
>with
>    \ifdim\ht0<\theremainingpageheight
>
>How/where can I get \theremainingpageheight? I saw some strange
>"keywords" like \pagegoal, \pagetotal spread through the source, ...
>but I have no clue what they are for and if they have anyting to do
>with what I'm looking for.
>  
>
that's always tricky, because it's not really possible to determine the 
rest of the available space without entering the output routing, which 
then spoils spacing

(there is \testpage[n] with n being a minimal number of lines, so, 
\testpage[10] will move to the next page if there are less than 10 lines)

Hans