Re: Control the length of the document

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Jim Hawkins

Posted: 03/07/2005 15:05:44

Sergey - could we have a way to define the number of lines to keep together

for widows/orphans?

For example, in a screenplay a slug-line (scene) should never appear on its

own at the bottom of a page. There is always one blank line after a slug,

so keep together doesn't work, because it assumes that paragaphs have no

white space.

Crude example:

INT. HOUSE -- DAY

-------------- page break = BAD

I do have a paragraph property for a slug line, but I can't force it easily

to say that it MUST keep a minimum of 3 lines together. The same applies

to dialogue. We can have:

         SERGEY

--------- page break -------

   Don't bother me with this!

Cheers

Jim

"Sergey Tkachenko" <svt@trichview.com> wrote:

>I'd recommend to use KeepLinesTogether and KeepWithNext options of paragraph

>instead (see Options property of paragraph style (TParaInfo)).

>Set KeepLinesTogether option for all paragraphs, and KeepWithNext for all

>paragraphs except for the last one of each document.

>It is much more reliable than trying to insert page breaks between

>documents.

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>> Hello,

>> I have been adding separate rvf documents to the "big" rfv document using

>> the method  AppendRVFFromStream. I need to control the length of the whole

>> document so that I can insert page break when a certain value of legth

is

>> exceeded. I want every printed rvf document to be inserted in one page

>only

>> (not several pages).

>>

>> Thanks

>>

>>    Jaroslav.

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