Am 07.03.2015 um 00:46 schrieb mf :

Hello, I'm trying to typeset a book made of letters with ConTeXt. Every letter has a title a subtitle and a date, before it starts with "Dear ..." Like this: --------------------------------- Title subtitle where, when Dear ..., the rest of the letter ... ---------------------------------

The letters are very different in length -- some are long, some are made of a couple of lines --, so I'd like to typeset them continuously, without skipping to a new page every new letter (\setuphead[LetterTitle][page=no]).

This way a letter could finish beyond the half of a page, and the next one could have no space left to get the part from Title to the first lines of the body on the same page.

That's why I disabled page breaks from Title to the first paragraph after "Dear ...": it would be ugly having only the title in one page and the rest in the next ones.

But there's a side effect: the title of the new letter "pulls" the last two lines (the penalties are set to avoid one-line widows) of the previous letter to the new page, even when there's room for them on the previous page. In this case I would like ConTeXt to break the page at the end of the previous letter, before the next letter title. That's why I've set before={\blank[2*line]\page[preference]} in LetterTitle. But it does not work. Example: --------------------- --------------------- text of the previous text of the previous letter with room to be letter with room to be all typeset here all typeset here page 11 last two lines of the [room for >2 lines] the previous letter

page break------------------- ==> ------------------- last two lines of the Title the previous letter subtitle ... page 12 Title subtitle ...

-------------------- --------------------

Is there a way to know the vertical location where the previous letter ends, to decide whether to skip to a new page?

You can use the \testpage command where you can set how many lines should remain on the page before a page breaks happens. \setuphead[LetterTitle][before={\testpage[8]\blank[2*line]}] If this doesn’t help you should make a *working* minimal example. Wolfgang

On 03/07/2015 12:46 AM, mf wrote:

Hello, I'm trying to typeset a book made of letters with ConTeXt. Every letter has a title a subtitle and a date, before it starts with "Dear ..." Like this: --------------------------------- Title subtitle where, when Dear ..., the rest of the letter ... ---------------------------------

The letters are very different in length -- some are long, some are made of a couple of lines --, so I'd like to typeset them continuously, without skipping to a new page every new letter (\setuphead[LetterTitle][page=no]).

This way a letter could finish beyond the half of a page, and the next one could have no space left to get the part from Title to the first lines of the body on the same page.

That's why I disabled page breaks from Title to the first paragraph after "Dear ...": it would be ugly having only the title in one page and the rest in the next ones.

But there's a side effect: the title of the new letter "pulls" the last two lines (the penalties are set to avoid one-line widows) of the previous letter to the new page, even when there's room for them on the previous page. In this case I would like ConTeXt to break the page at the end of the previous letter, before the next letter title. That's why I've set before={\blank[2*line]\page[preference]} in LetterTitle. But it does not work.

Hi Massi, how about "before={\blank[2*line]\page[bigpreference]}"? As Wolgang noted before, a minimal sample is essential to be able to provide a solution. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk