Lars Huttar wrote:
On 12/2/2008 1:45 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
Hello,
We have a document with a 2-column layout where we have section headers that keep ending up at the bottom of columns. .... I checked the manual [3] and command reference [4] but couldn't find information about \testpage. Is there a corresponding command to conditionally produce a column break?
Thanks, Lars
I just looked at the implementation of \testpage in base/page-ini.tex and found \testcolumn. I imagine that should be analogous to \testpage, but hesitate to rely on an undocumented feature, as it might be unused or obsolete code. I can't find any examples of anyone using \testcolumn.
Yet it seems that keeping a section header with the following text in a column would be a common layout requirement; even Microsoft Word does it. Am I missing something?
tex does not know about columns, so any implementation is kind of a hack; some time next year in mkiv we will have a more advanced skip/penalty model that might handle such cases
Does anybody know if \testcolumn is intended for public use?
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