Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
It doesn't need to automatically determine the subsection boundaries automatically (although this would be great), so I can write something like this:
\startmaterialforonepage \subsection{split only if too long for one page} \dorecurse{10}{whatever comes here \dots } \stopmaterialforonepage
Do you want something like this?
\long\def\startmaterialforonepage#1\stopmaterialforonepage% {\setbox0\vbox{#1}\ifdim\ht0<\textheight \page\fi #1}
Thak you, Taco. Yes, this is almost exactly what I wanted to do, except that I would substitute \ifdim\ht0<\textheight with \ifdim\ht0<\theremainingpageheight
How/where can I get \theremainingpageheight? I saw some strange "keywords" like \pagegoal, \pagetotal spread through the source, ... but I have no clue what they are for and if they have anyting to do with what I'm looking for.
that's always tricky, because it's not really possible to determine the rest of the available space without entering the output routing, which then spoils spacing
(there is \testpage[n] with n being a minimal number of lines, so, \testpage[10] will move to the next page if there are less than 10 lines)
Thank you, Hans. I have to refresh my knowledge about the syntax and I'll try it out. Making \setbox0\vbox{#1} and then executing the \testpage with "ceil(ht0 / lineheight)" should then work OK, I hope. I understand the problem of the approach that I asked for: as soon as someone enters a \vfill(l) or \vss, it's approximately impossible to determine where the text on the page ends. But in the first approximation I would be satisfied with the empty space that would remain if the document ended at that specific place. That information is also very valuable when trying to put pictures on slides, where picture has to be as big as possible, but still has to fit on the space under the title (I tuned them manually, which was OK for just a couple of slides). Thank you, Mojca