Thanks!, Wolfgang. As ever, you are a life saver. I was able to remove all
but one of the weird page breaks using your suggestions. The last one was
resolved by moving a \startegister a few words further along in the
paragraph.

Alan

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 10.06.2012 um 20:52 schrieb Alan Bowen:
>
> > Is there a way in MKII to ensure that there is never a page break
> between a heading and the following text?
> >
> > \setuphead[after={\page[no]}] does not seem to work without entering
> vertical mode before \page. But, so far, I have not found a way to enter
> vertical mode in after={…} that does not add interlinespace and thus place
> the text too far from the heading.
> >
> > Any suggestion or alternatives?
>
> Do you have a example where you get an unwanted page break because context
> tries to prevent it.
>
> When you can’t make one in a short time try one of the following methods:
>
>
> 1. Insert a page break before the heading when not enough space is
> available.
>
> \setuphead[…][before={\testpage[6]\blank[…]}]
>
>
> 2. Add a big penalty before the vertical space after the heading (don’t
> use this method in mkiv).
>
> \setuphead[…][after={\nobreak\blank[…]}]
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
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