DOCBOOK: Re: Which conversion method should I use?

["Matt G." <matt_g_ at hotmail dot com>]

> From: Jose <studio@qadram.com>
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re[2]: DOCBOOK: Which conversion method should I use?
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:56:56 +0200
>
> PS> use  chapter and section tags and have the required depth start on a 
> new
> PS> page?
>
> I want to force a page break in the middle of a chapter,
Oh?  Why is that?  If it's because you want some content *following* the 
page-break to be entirely presented on a sequence of pages, wouldn't it be 
more convenient to have a grouping element?

I'm only asking because, while I never found myself wishing for such a 
thing, more than one coworker has approached me with questions about 
pagebreaks.


Personally, I find the 'grouping' approach to much more naturally follow the 
hierarchical structure of the document.  It also seems like a good 
formatting tool might be able to perform much more optimal layout, with 
grouping information, than with explicit page-breaks.  There's also nothing 
to say that these grouping elements can't be nested.


...however, perhaps you just want top-level sections to start a new page, 
for example.  If that's the case, you can already do that.


Matt Gruenke


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