{page-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks pages (and, in multi-column documents, columns) and how page/column breaking can be influenced.
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\pagebreak vs \newpage
What's the difference? I know that \pagebreak can take an optional argument that specifies how much a page break is desired, but is there any difference if the optional argument is not used?
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Is it wrong to use \clearpage instead of \newpage?
The commands \newpage and \clearpage both force a page break. In addtion, the latter command also "flushes" all pending floats from the stack, i.e., forces them to be typeset starting on the page that ...
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How do I ensure that figures appear in the section they're associated with?
Often floats may land quite a bit later in the document than the point they are created, sometimes after a section break.
Is there a way to force a new section to start on a new page, after any ...
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Catchwords: Print first word from next page at bottom of current page
I would like to typeset catchwords. That is, I would like to put a “preview” of the next page’s first word at the bottom of every page.
An example taken from the Wikipedia page linked above:
The ...
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Typesetting limitations of LaTeX
What are the typesetting limitations of LaTeX? In other words what are the things that desktop publishing and word processing programs do better than LaTeX? I am not really interested in things that ...
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Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?
I have only basic knowledge of the TeX internals, so I hope what I am saying here is not complete nonsense. If I understand correctly, in TeX, horizontal positioning / line breaking is done using a ...
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What is the difference between “Page Break” and “New Page”? [duplicate]
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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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 ...
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How to avoid page-breaks inside paragraphs?
I would like to know if there is any global command that would prevent any page-breaks inside paragraphs. I'd rather have the whole paragraph on the next page instead of having it cut in the middle. I ...
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multicolumn long table or enumeration
I would like to generate a multi-column table that wraps within columns of the document, and splits across pages. There are a couple of similar questions here
How do I create a really long table in ...
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Meta-question: Automated Newspaper Layout
This question might well be off topic, so feel free to close. But I hope some people reading here possess the relevant meta-knowledge.
I'm thinking (from a professional point of view) about fully ...
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How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?
I know there exists the \phantom command, but does it work on large blocks of text (containing several paragraphs or even several pages)?
What I want is to have some commands, call them \hide and ...
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How do I force a column-break in a multi-column page?
I want to display my article's abstract and table of contents side-by-side, to save space. I'm using the multicols package, but it tries to keep each column the same height, and I can't figure out how ...
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Adding vertical space at the start of a page
I'd like to, first thing before writing anything on a page, add some vertical space.
Minimal (non)working example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\vspace{250px}
I want to be further down ...
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Widow word on a page? I thought LaTeX wouldn't do that
Just had a surprise. I have a section in an article followed by a figure. The text flows over a page and ... one more word on the next page (which also includes the figure).
Yes, I added a ~ before ...
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Why is \newpage ignored sometimes ?
I have the following towards the end of an article. The bibliography is short (4 entries).
What's happening is that on the very last page of document I get the chart and immediately afterwards the ...
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How can I make a table that takes up more than a single page?
I've got data that I need to include in a table, but there's a lot if it. I've played with the font size and table formatting as much as I can, but the table still won't fit on the page. Is there ...
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How to prevent lstlisting from splitting code between pages?
Is it possible to prevent lstlisting from splitting a code between pages if it does not fit on one page? Instead splitting I would like to have the code on the next page.
I tried to put all ...
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Suppressing hyphenation across pages
Is there a way of preventing the last word of a page from being hyphenated?
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How to make continuous (but breakable) vertical rule along left side of paragraph?
I'm looking for a way in Plain TeX to make a continuous vertical rule along the left side of a paragraph (or arbitrary block of text), such that it observes normal page-break rules. I started with the ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Tikz - How to overlay Decorations over longtable
I asked similar question here Colored Curly Brackets spanning across multiple pages but may be I did not provide enough detail. On its own the solution works great.
I have about 32 longtables in my ...
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Paragraph breaks with asterisks
In many books—mostly novels—often some paragraphs will have a blank line between them to indicate a sort of 'pause' in the narration. If one of these blank lines appears at the top or bottom of the ...
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Table and multi-page
I'm writing some sort of book and i've got a very large table.
I was wondering if there was a way to span a table not in the length but in the width.
In the end, i would like to be able to divide ...
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prevent “action” if top of page
I have a manual list of stuff that are sometimes separated by an hrule(or my own custom ruler) for visual purposes.
Sometimes the hrule ends at the top or bottom of a page which makes it useless.
Is ...
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align* but show one equation number at the end
I am using align*, but I still need an equation number. I know one solution is to use align and add \nonumber to all lines but the last. Is there a 'lazy' way to do it?
I searched a little and found ...
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Include without pagebreak
I really like the \input command, but what I really like more is the \includeonly command.
Is there a way to have the best of these worlds? (i.e. an \inputonly or an \include without page-breaks?)
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Vertical spacing, pagination and ideal results
I found that the best way to avoid widows and orphans is setting penalties and using rubber lengths between paragraphs, for instance, \setlength{\parskip}{1pt plus 1pt minus 1pt}.
When I shared this ...
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Displaying the range of sections on the page in the header
I would like to have on each page the range of sections covered by it displayed, opposite of the page number and accompanied by the name of the first new section (if there is a new one) starting on ...
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how to suppress “Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) … while \output is active”?
when using an inflexible document class, one is often faced
with the warning
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active []
on pages that contain no display math.
in ...
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Avoiding page breaks shortly after section/subsection headings
By default, LaTeX allows a page break after the first two lines of paragraphs following section/subsection headings. How can I enlarge this minimum to, say, three lines or 10 percent of the value of ...
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Keep all footnotes on the according page
Is there a way to keep all footnotes on the page where they belong to? I have several (20-30) footnotes per page (some short, some stretch over multiple lines). Sometimes latex places the last one or ...
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Code spanning over two pages with minted, inside listing with caption
I am trying using minted to display some code in my document, but the code is long and spans over two pages, this works fine, however when I place my code inside
\begin{listing}
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How to prevent a page break before an itemize list?
It is not nice to have a page break right after the colon and have the list start on a new page:
And here, finally, is the list of mission-critical items:
\begin{itemize}
...
\end{itemize}
How can ...
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Finding all widows and orphans
There have been several questions about how to avoid widows and orphans, so let me first state that that is not the question here. I know I can try and tweak the settings but that it's still possible ...
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Clearpage without pagebreak?
Is there a command which does the same like \clearpage (typesetting all floats which have not been typeset yet) but then does not insert a pagebreak but continues with the following text/graphics on ...
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multicols not wrapping to 2nd column properly?
I am having problem with multicol package, I created a sample demo to show it.
When I put 3 minipages of certain height in the multicol it puts 2 of the boxes on the first column, but the 2nd box is ...
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A special example environment
How can I define an environment named "example" so that:
can be broken over pages
has a horizontal line above "Example \chap.\no" (e.g. Example 4.10),
and vertical line that is spread to the whole ...
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How to avoid a page break before a two-column TOC in memoir
Although `I wouldn't normally do this', I'm writing a short(ish) document for which I'd like to place a small TOC in two columns as the last thing on the title page.
In single column mode it works ...
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How can I split a beamer bibliography across two slides?
I have several citations in a beamer-based presentation. Is it possible to split the bibliography across two slides? I'm using natbib / bibtex. And I currently just have:
\begin{frame}
\tiny
...
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Conditional pagebreak?
Is there a way I can have LaTeX insert a pagebreak, if the last line of the page is a certain string? e.g.
\noindent \textsl{Solution}:
thanks very much!
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Breaking pictures across multiple pages
I am a relative TeX newbie trying to write a new package to generate timelines that can span multiple pages (the existing timeline solutions are not suitable for me, and I would like to write ...
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How do I prevent widow/orphan lines?
How do I prevent a line from appearing by itself:
Orphan: at the bottom of the page, or
Widow: at the top of the page?
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How can I put a line above a section heading and prevent a page break between?
We have designed a class for some journal. We wanted our section titles to be separated by a horizontal line from the previous line. Here is the code:
\def\section{%
\vskip 1.2\@bls%
\hrule ...
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Breaking a theorem between pages
I currently have this custom myexample theorem environment that is working absolutely great.
\newtheoremstyle{myexamplestyle}{}{}{}{}{\bfseries}{.}{ }{}
...
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Is there a way to make “page” size match document length?
Many PDFs are never printed but are read in electronic form, where, for at least some readers and reading styles, it would be advantageous to have a single page through which the reader could ...
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Squeeze some more lines on the current page
During the last phase of layout I frequently get a single line or two on a separate page. Rather then pulling the whole paragraph on that last page I would like to "squeeze" the lines on the previous ...
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Column-wise break of extra wide tables
I have to plot geochemical data tables that are like this table
, i.e. with a header column, but that have much more sample columns. When having too many columns, the table has to be broken at a ...
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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 ...
