| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
Does baselevel 8 fix the problem of widows in lists, including nested
lists?
A document produced under baselevel 7 resulted in something like the
example shown below. If it's significant, the document was produced for
MEMO and LN03 destination.
1.0 DOG BREEDS AND CAT BREEDS
The list below shows the different breeds by which dogs and cats
are known.
1. Dogs
o Heinz 57
o Mutt
o Purebred
2. Cats
o Alley
o Tom
(new page)
o Calico
2.0 WHY CATS CLIMB ON COUNTERS
Who knows? They won't do it while you're looking, but turn
your back and they *will* climb on your counters!
Rose
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| 392.1 | not necessarily | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Tue May 19 1987 14:29 | 4 | |
There was no specific work done on penalties for page breaks in
lists. This has been a lower priority item.
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| 392.2 | heavy sigh | COOKIE::WITHERS | Le plus ca change... | Wed May 20 1987 13:13 | 21 |
It's too bad that DOCUMENT doesn't take special care to trap widows and orphans. Doing so would certainly make for nicer documents (as Rose's example showed). Unfortunately, it's the writers and editors that catch it in the Kidneys when DOCUMENT does something silly or allows silly things to happen (such as widows). My manager doesn't care that I can't make sure a document doesn't have widows. He just says "That line at the top of the page is ugly - can't you move it to the previous page? And I say, tail between my legs, that I can't because that's the way VAX DOCUMENT does things. Please consider fixing widows and orphans in the next version. Also, please give me the capability to do a page-break test so that I can make sure I don't generate window lines anymore. Thanks! BobW | |||||
| 392.3 | we keep trying to get better | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Wed May 20 1987 15:45 | 7 | |
We hope there are not too many widows, and we *do* give people a
way to modify page breaks during a final, 'clean-up' pass.
The wishlist item for a .test-page like tag is indeed on the list.
-pa
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