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Re: Widows and orphans in XSL-FO

Subject: Re: Widows and orphans in XSL-FO
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:57:22 -0400
Re:  Widows and orphans in XSL-FO
At 2009-10-30 17:44 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:
Sorry my original post was not clear enough. I
have a short output PDF file that may show
better what I mean, but I cannot send it to the
list. A longer copy is on the web at:

http://www.knihtisk.org/library/specialist/pdf/a.pdf

That helps a lot.


Page 1 ends with "Kvapilova, Hana"

In a perfect world, it would have ended with the
line above it, "New issues: Czech Republic.
Jan/Feb 1996 p.23." which is an <Article>
element and Kvapilova, Hana" ( a <SubDiv1>
element), would have been pushed to the next page.

The rule I want to enforce is:
"A page may only end with one or more renditions
of <Article> elements." (Visually: a page may
only end with a black rendition, never a red rendition).

The bottom of page 3 shows how pages should end.
There, a list of <Article> elements extends from
the bottom of page 3 to the top of page 4

I did get a lead on "blind tables" with my
Google search and am attempting to see if that
will work for me. The "keep-" properties seems
more in line with my needs than the "break-" properties, but I am not sure.

How about for your top-level entries (e.g. "Actors") you don't use a keep.


Then for their first-level children (i.e.
starting with "-") and second-level grandchildren
(i.e. starting with "- - ") use keep-with-next.within-column="always".

Then for the black lines, use
keep-with-previous.within-column="always".  This
handles the two lines of the "Velehrad" entry.

That way you'll get no page breaks between your
red and black lines.  Nor will you get a break
between *adjacent* red lines.  If you don't want
a break before "Strahovaska Madona" then add
keep-with-previous.within-column="always" to the "- - " grandchildren.

Page breaks should put first-level children at
the top of the column, except between the first child of a top-level entry.

I think that will get you real close and perhaps
meet all of your requirements as I understand them.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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