On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/25/2017 03:25 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> You can manually force page breaks (after the document is "finalized") by >>> inserting formatting instructions. See section 3.5.5 of the LyX User >>> Guide. >>> You might also try the enumitem module (see section 3.6 of the PDF >>> documentation for the enumitem package), but I've struggled to get that >>> to >>> work. >> >> I am looking for a simple and automatic way. But thanks, Paul! >> >> Paul > > Fully automatic (not to mention simple) may not be feasible. What if you > have a zillion subitems under one main item (or a few really long subitems)? > Theoretically, you could put LaTeX in a position where your subitem list > exceeds a page length but it's not allowed to break up the list. So, while > I'm not a LaTeX guru, my guess is that the best you'll be able to do with an > "automatic" approach is to encourage, rather than force, LaTeX to break > after a sublist rather than during (or at the start) of one. > > I believe that's what the penalty options in the enumitem package are > intended to do, and I believe that you can set global values for those > penalties. So, if I'm right, you should just need to make two tweaks to the > document. Add the enumitem module in the document modules list, and add a > line of LaTeX code in the preamble setting your penalties. IF I'm right (and > IF you can get it to work).
Thanks again, Paul. I have tried playing with midpenalty but with no success. Other people have reported the same on several forums on the Internet. Anyway, I can resort to the manual way! :-) Paul
