Re: DOCBOOK: prevent splitting of block elements?

[Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>]

Old email, but ...

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / Karlheinz Eckmeier 46372 <Karlheinz.Eckmeier.extern@ae3.hypo.de> was heard to say:
> | Is there a way to prevent the contents of certain block elements
> | (like <screen>) being split across page boundaries? In cases where the
> | elements contents doesn't fit on a page I would like the complete block
> | moved onto the next page. 
> 
> You could tinker with the definition of $verbatim-display$ to include the
> property
> 
>   keep: #t
> 
> Either always or perhaps if a specific role attribute value was used.
> 
> But I'm pessimistic about it, I seem to recall that JadeTeX has trouble
> with keeps. Anyone know for sure? Sebastian, are you out there :-)?

I think it does respect keeps -- I mean, I recall solving problems by
hacking in keep-with-next, although maybe that's another thing.  There
are definately remaining widow/orphan problems though -- I'm not sure
if that's JadeTeX bugs or stylesheet bugs.  Haven't had time to
research that.

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