I’m been searching high and low for this and don’t even know what to call it to search for it.
I’m trying to prevent page breaks from happening at awkward places. I have quite a few extended quotes in my manuscript that sometimes appear like this:
Case 130
[page break]
This is the case description that follow. Lorem ipsum dolor. Lorem ipsum dolor.
I want to force a page break either earlier or later – I don’t care which, but when a page break comes at that particular line, it makes the compilation look awkward.
Are there any strategies for handling this besides manually entering line breaks and hope they hold up as you make edits elsewhere in the document?
You can use Format > Paragraph > Keep with Next to ensure that a paragraph is kept with the paragraph that follows it. In this case, you would want “Keep with Next” applied to “Case130”, which will force that line to be pushed onto the next page.
Is the “Keep with Next” format captured when you create a new paragraph style? If so, then it might be worth the effort to create one that is then followed by the standard block quote style, and customize compile as needed to include that style in the output.
Many thanks! I figure there was something for this very purpose.
Rdale- I’m not sure if I am using it wrong, but it doesn’t appear to work but perhaps it’s because I’m using it within a style (rather than no-style.) I’ll try and see if it works with NoStyle.
“Keep with Next” is captured as part of paragraph styles (in fact, I’m not sure why I didn’t add that as part of the “Heading” and “Title” default styles, and have added that for the next update.
Apply the style to your header that you’re applying to the rest of that text (block quote, I presume)
Apply the “keep with next” formatting to your header
Select the text of your quote header*
Invoke the menu Format->Style->New Style from Selection
Give it a name; I suggest starting with the same words as the original style, like “Block Quote” followed by another descriptor, such as " - header",
Set the Formatting to “Save paragraph style”, and then only have the “include font size” checkbox ticked.*
Set “Next Style” to the style you’re using for your quotes (again, presumably “Block Quote”).
Optionally, have the “draw highligh box around text” checked and your preferred color chosen, so you know that you’ve set your quote header style rather than the standard (block quote?) style.
The “Next Style” is handy, because you can type your header “Case 130”, then hit the enter key, and you’ll already be in the standard (block quote?) style for typing in or pasting in the extended quote.
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What I’m doing with this setting is trying to mimic how the block quote style’s options were defined on the Windows beta; I hope these settings are the same on Mac v3, but I don’t have that computer handy at the moment.[/size]