Re: DropTagItem and Line Breaking

[Jeff Kingston]

You're right, there is nothing you can do at the user level
to get this behaviour.

I've had a quick look at the implementation and it looks feasible
to add another symbol, say @DropTagItemUnbreakable (@DTIU), which
will bind the label to the first paragraph of the item.  I'll try
it out and hopefully add some such thing to the next release.

Meanwhile, you'll have to insert a @ListNewPage symbol before
the item that is going wrong.  I know this is not a fully
satisfactory solution, but it's all there is at the moment.

Jeff


On Mon, 06 May 2002 19:38:41 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > In lout 2.35, I've several @DropTagItem lists.  
  > Occasionally, when one of these lists falls on a 
  > pagebreak, the label will be on one page, and the 
  > dropped text will be on the next page.  Is there a way 
  > to keep the label and dropped text together?
  > 
  > In cases of a multi-paragraph section of dropped text, I 
  > would think it good to keep the label and first 
  > paragraph of dropped text together.
  > 
  > I don't think @OneRow is the answer to this problem, as 
  > it is unclear to me where one would place @OneRow.
  > 
  > Below is a small example of the style list I am talking 
  > about.  By inserting this into a lout document and 
  > repeating the @DTI line several times, one should be 
  > able to see the effect that I describe above.
  > 
  > @TaggedList
  > @DTI{label}{Dropped text under the label.}
  > @EndList
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Dave