Re: page-break-before (was Re: <p> and <pbr>)


Subject: Re: page-break-before (was Re:

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From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 15:06:28 CST


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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:

> This is a real problem, but that's the wrong solution.
>
> The feature Sam wants is the "page-break-before" paragraph property, which
> is currently defined (and displayed on the second page of the paragraph
> dialog). Essentially, the semantics of this property are that any paragraph
> which has it should always start at the beginning of the page. Because this
> is a property, it can also be used in style definitions, which is especially
> nice.

Well, since you said that manual page breaks are rare, and I use this
feature (unknowingly) on a regular basis, could we map ctrl-enter to the
sequence
new paragraph - set page-break-before
I, for one, would like to have the more often used function mapped to the
'easy' key combo.

>
> Unfortunately, for some strange reason the formatter doesn't honor this
> property yet. To be honest, I'm not sure why -- it should be *very* easy to
> implement.
>
>
Well, if it's so easy, I'll take a look at it.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sytobinh@uchicago.edu
                                        
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