Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 68807
Paragraph styles: conditional page break based on space remaining on page
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:33 UTC
It would be nice to be able to have a paragraph style that had a page break before it if the amount of space remaining on the page is lower than some threshold. This would allow for subsection breaks that began a new page in a more intelligent way than always beginning a new page for every subsection.
Reassigned to requirements.
I added this text as part of enhancement # 12011. 68807 may be considered a duplicate of 12011, or not. Neither one seems to be looked at very much.... My preference for conditional page breaks is as follows: break the page (or column, or section) if the bottom of the page (or column, or section) is less than a certain distance away. I may want to break if the paragraph is within 4cm of the page bottom, or within 25% of the page area. I use this sort of feature in large design and code specification documents. Each function gets a heading, and there are headings for inputs, outputs, bugs, etc. Some functions are big, some sections in functions are big, but many are small. Having no page breaks makes it too dense; having unconditional page breaks makes too many pages unfilled (too sparse). Setting the function heading style to break at 40% of the page, and the sub-headings to break at 15% of the page, gives a nice looking readable document, without needing to go through and manipulate page breaks manually (which is horrid after the page is edited).