Re: [lmi] Illustrations pagination and paragraph splitting?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2018-05-26 15:44, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
>  I'd like to ask if we should continue to allow splitting paragraphs over
> page breaks in the new PDF generation code or if it would be better to keep
> the paragraphs on the same page (and so put a page break before the
> paragraph if it doesn't fit on the page entirely)?

[...here, "Current" and "old" refer to the XSL-FO code in production,
rather than newer and older revisions of the wxPdfDoc replacement...]

>  Current illustrations do split paragraphs, as can be easily seen using
> "sample2ipp" product, and it's, of course, simpler to allow doing it rather
> than doing something special to prevent it from happening, but it just
> doesn't look right to me and I was actually sure that it was a bug before I
> looked at the old code and realized that it did the same thing.
Running the XSL-FO code under 'wine' is so cumbersome that I didn't
actually do it here, but I understand what you mean. Arguably it's not
so bad to split a ten- or twenty-line paragraph from a literary work
(as used demonstratively for 'sample2ipp'); but in the business world
these paragraphs are more likely to average about three lines long,
and splitting them, I'm afraid, would look careless. It's worth going
to considerable extra effort to avoid splitting paragraphs--e.g., it's
certainly worth spending one full extra week to get this right.