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

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

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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nicholas.dokos@hp.com [mailto:nicholas.dokos@hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:21 PM
> To: Jos'h Fuller
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; nicholas.dokos@hp.com
> Subject: Re: [O] Controlling pagination on headings in Latex/PDF
> export?
> 
> 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