{page-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks pages (and, in multi-column documents, columns) and how page/column breaking can be influenced.
Questions tagged [page-breaking]
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Is it wrong to use \clearpage instead of \newpage?
The commands \newpage and \clearpage both force a page break. In addition, the latter command also "flushes" all pending floats from the stack, i.e., forces them to be typeset starting on the page that follows the page break.
My question is: Is it…
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What is the difference between "Page Break" and "New Page"?
Possible Duplicate:
\pagebreak vs \newpage
In LyX/LaTeX,
What is the difference between "Page Break" and "New Page"?
They both seem to do the same to me.
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Absolutely, definitely, preventing page break
This is a question that has been asked before in various ways, but I have yet to find a general answer to it. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something and the solution is actually very simple.
I have a section of a document where page breaks are…
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Unbreakable block
I want to do something like the following in TeX:
\begin{nobreak}
Text here will not split over pages, it will remain
as one continuous chunk. If there isn't enough room
for it on the current page a pagebreak will happen
before it and the whole…
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\include puts everything on a new page
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Page break with \include
I have got my LaTeX documents split in to several files, but when I input them in to my main document it starts the content on a new page. How can I stop this from happening?
Here is what's going…
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Nopagebreak nopagebreak nopagebreak - why won't LaTeX listen to me?
Fun times, I'm making a (manual) index of the lecture slides for class (which are nowhere near latex, ppt files yay) and of course Latex insists on placing pagebreaks willie nillie through my items. Why isn't there a "keep (paragraph) with next…
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How make sure two elements stay on the same page?
I am writing a very simple how-to document with several screenshots. The document flow goes something like this:
A few sentences explaining action 1
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{action_1_screenshot}
\end{center}
A few sentences explaining…
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What are 'pagebreak hints'?
The FAQ refers to "pagebreak hints". I can't find any mention of these by searching (for "[page-breaking] hints" and various other things). What are pagebreak hints and how does one use them?
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When does \nopagebreak work?
There are many examples where \nopagebreak doesn't work as expected:
Nopagebreak nopagebreak nopagebreak - why won't LaTeX listen to me?
How to make longtable respect \nopagebreak in the beginning?
nopagebreak between rule and custom theorem…
Ari Brodsky
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I need help on forcing a pagebreak in LaTeX
I am using LaTeX and trying to put the tables and figures at the end of the manuscript so that they occur on separate pages. I have tried \pagebreak, \newpage, \displaybreak before each of the tables/figures and none of them are forced onto a new…
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\newpage,\clearpage and \cleardoublepage not working
I'm trying to compile the following:
\documentclass[twoside,11pt,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=5in,paperheight=7in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
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harisibrahimkv
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How to keep Heading together with text?
I use a very custom style (not mine) and very frequently I get a heading
on the bottom of a page and the next paragraph on the top of the next page. Sometimes this paragraph may be a list or similar. The same is true for listings and the listing…
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\goodbreak vs. \pagebreak
I recently came across the \goodbreak command, which seems to indicate to TeX that this is a good place to put a page break. How does it differ from, say \pagebreak[3]?
Joachim Breitner
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Avoiding a page break after the first word of a sentence
Is there a way to tell TeX to avoid breaking the page after the first word of a sentence?
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He was quite dead. Apparently his neck had been
broken. The lightning flashed for a third time, and
his face leaped upon me. I sprang to my…
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pagebreak if only 1/4th of the page left?
I have a document with some tabulars one after the other. I want the tabulars begin on a new page if there is very little room left on the actual page, like 1/4th. Otherwise, there should not be a pagebreak. So I need some kind of conditional…
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