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Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?
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Russell Adams |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:58:40 -0600 |
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I often use newpage myself, and have wondered if there were a way to
ensure every first level (maybe second level too?) always had an
automatic newpage before it.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 06:25:40PM +0000, Jos'h Fuller wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am familiar with \newpage (and I especially like to put it at the front of
> the document to keep my content out of my table of contents!), but I was
> hoping to be able to do this in some more automatic fashion, since these are
> long reports and I want to be able to process them unattended.
>
> Is it possible to do something like this:
>
> * Period...
> ** Asset
> #+latex: \keepthisstufftogether{begin}
> *** DEPARTMENT A
> | Table | Data | Here. |
> | Table | Data | Here. |
> | Table | Data | Here. |
> #+latex: \keepthisstufftogether{end}
> *** DEPARTMENT B
> ...
>
> I have no idea what /actual/ LaTeX call fills in for "\keepthisstufftogether"
> though...
>
> Thanks!
>
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>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:21 PM
> > To: Jos'h Fuller
> > Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF
> > export?
> >
> > Jos'h Fuller <Jos'address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm have an org-mode document something like this:
> > >
> > > * Period 2012-02-06 to 2012-02-12
> > > ** Asset
> > > *** DEPARTMENT
> > > | Data | Data | Data | Data |
> > > |-------------+------+------+------|
> > > | XXXXXX | 1 | 1 | 0 |
> > > | YYYYYY | 5 | 4 | 0 |
> > >
> > > (There are more "Assets", each with several DEPARTMENTS. The tables
> > are short, perhaps 10-15 rows.)
> > >
> > > When I go to export a PDF, I will often get "DEPARTMENT" at the
> > bottom of one page, with the actual data table at the start of the
> > next. Is there any way to keep the heading together with the table?
> > >
> >
> > Try adding
> >
> > #+LATEX: \newpage
> >
> > before the heading where you want the page break to occur:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > Period 2012-02-06 to 2012-02-12
> > ** Asset
> > #+LATEX: \newpage
> > *** DEPARTMENT
> > | Data | Data | Data | Data |
> > |-------------+------+------+------|
> > | XXXXXX | 1 | 1 | 0 |
> > | YYYYYY | 5 | 4 | 0 |
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > You should probably do that as a last resort in the last editing
> > round, just to fix problematic spots.
> >
> > > I tried using the longtable environment, but that just splits the
> > > table itself, so that I might have the heading at the bottom of the
> > > page with one row of the table and a continued message. I also tried
> > > the LaTeX directives \goodbreak before the headings and \nobreak
> > > between the headings and tables but they didn't seem to affect
> > > anything.
> > >
> >
> > IIRC, these influence LaTeX's internal measures of whether this is a
> > good or bad place to do it, but there are several factors in
> > competition
> > and they probably lose in comparison to the other factors.
> >
> > \newpage otoh is Thor's hammer: no questions asked.
> >
> > Nick
>
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- [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Jos'h Fuller, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Nick Dokos, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Jos'h Fuller, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?,
Russell Adams <=
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Sebastien Vauban, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Jos'h Fuller, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Jos'h Fuller, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Sebastien Vauban, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Nick Dokos, 2012/02/16
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Stefan Nobis, 2012/02/17
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Ian Barton, 2012/02/17
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Sebastien Vauban, 2012/02/17
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Nick Dokos, 2012/02/17
- Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?, Sebastien Vauban, 2012/02/17