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[Robert Ramsay Lamar <address@hidden>]

Vincent,

el.douwen wrote:
> i work in this moment on a document, composed with lots of little 
> paragraphs
>
> i would like that paragraph do not be cut  between ehte pages
>
> i mean: texmacs of course automatically create a new page when one is full
>
> so i have 

[... diagram omitted ...]

> i could do this manually, inserting a page break where i think one is 
> needed.
> but that necessitates  to export to pdf, have a look on the result, and 
> inserting manually page break, and if i insert a line in some paragraph, 
> everything is to do again.

To do it manually, you should not have to bother with PDF files.  Select 
the menu item Document -> Page -> Type -> Paper to see where your page 
breaks will fall.  Things like scrolling will be a bit slower, but it's 
less troublesome than generating a PDF over and over again.

> is there ann automatic tool to do this ?

I don't know of one.  I am not a developer, but I would guess that this 
behavior is hard-coded in TeXmacs.  If you were working with LaTeX, I 
would recommend surrounding paragraphs with parboxes or minipages.  You 
can do some of the same things in TeXmacs with single-celled tables, but 
my experiments just now are not predictable.

It would make sense, also, that one could change the badness of breaking 
a page in the middle of a paragraph, or tell TeXmacs to avoid 'orphans' 
of 15 lines (instead of just one), but I don't know if this can be done 
with the current system.

I doubt this helps much, but maybe someone else who is more intimate 
with the code will be able to correlate what I have said with what 
TeXmacs can do...

Rob


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