Widow Orphan controls to keep with header?

[kelly_hochanadel]

The documentation explaining the way the widow and orphan controls work is useless to me. What I'm trying to figure out is how I can prevent a situation where I have a heading with little or no content after it at the bottom of a page; however, it appears I can only set this at the style level and the style applies only to the heading or the paragraph, not both.

I suppose another option would be to set page-break-before on all the heading levels, but this would give me way too many pages potentially.

If only everyone would use the web like they're supposed to!

[ChoccieMuffin]

I have a generic "PageBreakBefore" style that I use to adjust headings where that happens. Most of the time the settings I have applied to p and H work ok, but sometimes it needs a little help.

Also have .KeepTogether, .KeepWithNext, .KeepWithPrevious, for the same reason.

[Lydia]

Widow/orphan control is used to keep things together within a paragraph, for example within a <p> tag. This would not work across paragraphs, so for an <h2> and some <p>'s, like you seem to look at.
For the situation where the heading should not appear alone at the bottom of the page, you can set the page-break-after to ávoid for that style.
I have no idea how to automatically control how many paragraphs have to follow a heading.

[andy_smith]

Hi ChoccieMuffin. I'm coming to this problem a few years after this was raised having just started with Flare. You said you have a generic page break before style and a keep with next/previous/together style. I have found an example of page break before in some of the legacy documents I'm working on but I can't find any examples of keep with next/before, etc. Could you paste me a bit of code that shows how this works?

I've found the Orphan/Widow control option on the Show tags dropdown but having Orphan/Widow control switched on doesn't seem to prevent even fractions of single lines after an automated page break. Is there a hidden setting I need to configure?

I'm working in PDF output if that gives a bit of context.

[ChoccieMuffin]

Hi ChoccieMuffin. I'm coming to this problem a few years after this was raised having just started with Flare. You said you have a generic page break before style and a keep with next/previous/together style. I have found an example of page break before in some of the legacy documents I'm working on but I can't find any examples of keep with next/before, etc. Could you paste me a bit of code that shows how this works?

I've found the Orphan/Widow control option on the Show tags dropdown but having Orphan/Widow control switched on doesn't seem to prevent even fractions of single lines after an automated page break. Is there a hidden setting I need to configure?

I'm working in PDF output if that gives a bit of context.

Hi. This is an extract from my stylesheet, with several of my generic styles that deal with spacing. These are only needed for my Print output:

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	.KeepWithNext
	{
		page-break-after: avoid;
		page-break-before: auto;
		page-break-inside: auto;
		column-break-after: auto;
	}

	.KeepWithPrevious
	{
		page-break-inside: auto;
		column-break-after: auto;
		page-break-after: auto;
		page-break-before: avoid;
	}

	.KeepTogether
	{
		page-break-inside: avoid;
		page-break-before: auto;
		page-break-after: auto;
		column-break-after: avoid;
	}

	.PageBreakBefore
	{
		page-break-before: always;
		column-break-after: auto;
		page-break-after: auto;
		page-break-inside: auto;
	}

	.AllowBreakInside
	{
		page-break-inside: auto;
		page-break-before: auto;
		page-break-after: auto;
		column-break-after: auto;
	}