Re: How to: get TeX to warn me when it breaks a chunk of text overpages.

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, John Culleton wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2002 05:57, Daniel Pittman wrote:

[...]

>> I would rather have (and have to fill) whitespace on the page
>> than a page break in the middle of a recipe.

[...]

>> What would be great would be to be able to discourage page
>> breaking within the recipe and to have TeX warn me when it
>> does break within the bounds of the recipe.

[...]

> The traditional way of handling this is the \filbreak command. It
> says in effect ``break the page here unless there is room for 
> the next chunk of text followed by a \filbreak command.'' See
> the TeXBook page 111. Thst fits your recipe situation perfectly.

The \filbreak command achieves the first part of what I want very
nicely. It places whitespace to maximize the degree to which a recipe
will remain on a single page but does not prevent page breaking.

This is great -- thanks for that. :)

I still don't get a warning if a recipe is longer than a single page,
though, which is a shame. It's not an insoluble problem, just an
annoyance. I wish that TeX would tell me when I had work to do on the
layout. ;)

I don't have the TeXbook[1] yet. Is the recipe on p.111 more than just
the use of the \filbreak operation? If so, would you summarize it for me
please?

Thanks, though. This is /so/ much of an improvement.
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Which annoys me, but I can't afford it for a little while since I
     became suddenly out of work. :(

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