#114 Widow and orphan control

[Anonymous]

With the resumes I output in PDF and RTF format, I
notice that sometimes there are widows and orphans --
not exactly something you want to appear in your
resume.

Is there any chance of either adding widow and orphan
protection or the ability to insert a hard page break into
a document?

[Mark Miller]

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This sounds like a good thing to investigate. I believe FO
has support for this sort of thing, and fixing our
format/fo.xsl file would fix both PDF and RTF output.

Would you be interested in fleshing out how this should
work? It would be really helpful to have a set of
guidelines about when to keep two blocks together and when
to let them sit on separate pages.

Thanks,

Mark

[David Cramer]

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Here's some info that might be useful in this context:

I notice the
xsls already put keep-with-next="always" the fo. Unfortunately, fop
currently only supports keep-with-next on table rows:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#faq-N101F7

RenderX's
XEP supports keep-with-next, but at one point (and maybe still?) you had
to put a keep-together="always" on the block containing the keep-with-
next for the keep-with-next to work. Putting a keep-together on your heads
is probably a good idea anyway.