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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: conditional page breaks and non-breakable blocks -- formatting for books, like XyWrite
From:       Tamar Granor <tamar () thegranors ! com>
Date:       2003-03-07 18:25:36
Message-ID: ohnh6v4ck5fealj277s65mgs47u6ggqtci () 4ax ! com
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:15:54 -0500 (EST), dave192@burtonsys.com wrote:

>But XyWrite's <NB>..<BB> (nonbreakable..breakable) and <NB nn>
>(nonbreakable for nn lines) "nonbreakable block" tags were
>much more flexible.  They could make a single paragraph
>unbreakable, of course.  But they could also be used to control
>page breaks over greater or lesser ranges.

Okay, now I see what else this offers.

>They were not limited to a single paragraph: you could group
>two or more closely related paragraphs (e.g., a descriptive
>paragraph followed by an example), which you didn't want it
>to separate.  Did you ever write, "as in the example below,"
>and wonder whether the example would really be "below" once
>the document was formatted?  Or contrast two very similar
>examples which you wanted to appear one below the other on
>the same page to make the contrast more obvious?  Or seek to
>ensure that a one line subheading and the short single paragraph
>that followed it appeared together on the same page?

This you can do. Use the Keep with Next setting to ensure that two
paragraphs are on the same page.

Tamar


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