Re: Strange page breaks

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 18.06.2012 um 12:41 schrieb Andreas Schneider:

> On Monday, June 18, 2012, at 11:54 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 18-6-2012 09:43, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> the attached example causes very strange page breaks.
>>> 
>>> 1.  The subsubsubject is the last line on the first page. That doesn't
>>> look very nice.
>>> 
>>> 2. The xtable is broken although the whole table fits on that page.
>>> 
>>> Is there anything I (or you? :-)) can do about these two problems?
>>> 
>>> #This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012052100 (TeX Live 2012/W32TeX)
>>> #ConTeXt  ver: 2012.05.24 19:36 MKIV  fmt: 2012.6.18  int: english/english
> 
>> not that strange but it's obscured by the fact that you use a float 
>> (which has different spacing and room-for rules) without caption
> 
>> in this case you can omit the placefloat and do
> 
>> \startxtable[header=repeat,split=yes]
> 
>> Hans
> 
> Doesn't  quite  work,  since  then  the header isn't repeated when the
> table is actually split.
> 
> With  natural  tables there seems to be a similar problem. But I guess
> that  enabling  split=yes  will  actually  place  it  inside  a  float
> automatically which leads back to the initial problem.

You can tell context to force a page break when there isn’t enough space for the heading.

\setuphead[subsubsubject][before={\testpage[6]\blank[big]}]

Wolfgang
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