Page break at headers

[Curt Clifton]

Andrew,

On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Andrew Abernathy wrote:

> [snip]  I would be interested in any feedback from the community as  
> to how helpful people would find the feature as Warren needs it  
> ("page break before row if and only if it and its children don't  
> completely fit on what remains of the current page"), or if people  
> need more flexibility (or something else entirely).

I would occasionally find that feature useful.  I've seen other  
applications factor the feature a bit differently.  In Word (I think)  
you can specify a paragraph as "keep with next", meaning a page break  
shouldn't immediately follow it.  Then you can specify some lines or  
paragraphs as "keep together", meaning a page break should fall  
amongst them.  Perhaps in the outlining paradigm these should be  
"Keep with First Child" and "Keep with Siblings".

This factoring is slightly more complex, but a greater variety of  
behavior.  Warren's case could be handled by setting level 2 rows as  
"Keep with First Child" and level 3 rows as "Keep with Siblings".   
Other combinations give different behavior, like just making sure a  
heading row doesn't appear alone at the bottom of a page.

Of course, if there are more siblings than will fit on a page, then  
they have to be split over pages even if the "Keep with Siblings"  
setting is on.  And I suppose someone might set a row to "Keep with  
First Child" but then enter so much text that the row takes a whole  
page by itself.

Cheers,


Curt