Re: Problem with large space after section header

[Jason Earl <jearl@notengoamigos.org>]

On Mon, Jun 28 2010, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Jason Earl wrote:
>
>> In my defense, part of the reason that I did not think of putting in a
>> manual page break before the section is that my real context documents
>> are generated from a script, and I did not want to have to process the
>> output by hand to solve these sorts of problems.  I was hoping for some
>> sort of magic that I could put after every section heading that would
>> make Context try harder to keep the content close to the header.
>>
>> However, while I don't pretend to be an expert at typesetting I do
>> understand that automating this stuff is hard, and sometimes there is no
>> real way to fix issues like this.  If I have to do a little hand
>> massaging of the output that's acceptable.
>
> In an automated setup, you can try
>
> \setuphead[section][before={\blank\testpage[4]}]
>
> \testpage[n] tests if there is enough space to put n lines in the
> current page. If not, it insearts a pagebreak. Play around with n to
> see what gives best result.

Thank you so much.  That looks like it is going to solve the most
problematic spaces without having to manually insert page breaks.  In
fact, to my untutored eye even without playing with the numbers it looks
perfect.  That was precisely the magic I needed, and it even came with
an explanation that should help me solve similar problems myself in the
future.

Thanks to Wolfgang for responding as well.  I am sorry I was not more
clear with my original report.

Thanks again,
Jason
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