Re: Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF export?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Jos'h Fuller <Jos'h.Fuller@arcproductions.com> 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