Re: Problem with large space after section header

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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.

Aditya
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