On 2/20/21 4:18 PM, Matt Miller wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021, at 10:53, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> On 2/20/21 12:10 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>> On 2/20/21 11:18 AM, Matt Miller wrote:
>>>> I want certain one-line paragraphs to never appear by themselves at the
>>>> bottom of a page or a column. Instead I want them to move to the next
>>>> column and appear together with the next paragraph. I created a paragraph
>>>> style and set "Keep with next paragraph" in the style editor, then I
>>>> applied that style to the one-line paragraphs in question. However, it's
>>>> not working the way I expect. I still have instances where these one-line
>>>> paragraphs are the last line of a column.
>>>>
>>>> My intention is to always force chapter headings to appear in the same
>>>> column as the first paragraph of their chapter. These headings are, for
>>>> example, "CHAPTER 12," and appear as a line by themselves right before the
>>>> first line of the chapter text. Is "Keep with next paragraph" the best
>>>> feature to stop these headings from appearing alone at the bottom of a
>>>> column? How should I accomplish this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> What you may want to do is to unlink those frames, starting a new series of
>>> links with the chapter heading.
>>>
>>
>> Another thing you can do in a series of linked frames would be to go to
>> the beginning of the line you want to appear at the beginning of the
>> next frame, and press Ctrl-Return. This bumps that line to the next
>> frame in the linked series.
>>
>> Greg
>>
> Manually entering a line break where needed is working for me. Thanks.
> However, the Ctrl-Return frame break pushes the content into the next frame,
> which for me is the next page, since I'm using a single two-column frame for
> each page. But, one way or another, either a column break or even a simple
> line break seems to do the job, and isn't much manual work.
>
> Now, getting back to my original attempt at using the "Keep with next
> paragraph" setting in the paragraph style editor, do you know why that's not
> working automatically? Am I misunderstanding what this setting is supposed
> to do?
Perhaps you can perceive the difficulty we can have on the list understanding
someone's original attempt from the information we get. Even now, I still have
to make some guesses.
As far as I can tell, you are talking about this kind of situation:
Chapter Heading
(empty line)
Following paragraph begins....
>From what I can tell, the setting to "Keep with next paragraph" has trouble
>jumping over an empty line (which in a sense is an empty paragraph). For that
>matter, I'm not really sure what this setting was designed to do.
Greg
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