Removing Page Break

[jaybird]

I am using Flare 5. Attached is a pic of the ToC for my PDf output. In the Properties/Printed Output tab of the Body book, I select Start a new chapter document and put a page layout in Configure Chapter using this page layout. I do not select Start a new chapter document in any of the subsequent subbooks because I want them all to use the same page layout. In the Properties/Printed Output tab of the Welcome and Sys Req pages I have not selected to start a new section or a new chapter.

When I generate the PDF, the Welcome topic is on it's own page, a page break follows, and then the System Reqs topic is on its own page. BUT all the topics in the Config subbook flow one right after the other with no page breaks in between. I don't want a page break after the Welcome topic or the Sys Req topic...I want them to flow one right after another like the Config subbook, and right into the topics of the Config Subbook. How do I make that happen?

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[lacastle]

do you have page-break-before properties set for the headings in your topics?

[LTinker68]

I do not select Start a new chapter document in any of the subsequent subbooks because I want them all to use the same page layout.

Just an FYI for the future... You can select the Start a new chapter document in subsequent books and reselect the same page layout, if you want. You might do this in situations where you have a "First" page in your page layout and want to set a book to be the start of a new "chapter" and use therefore use the "First" page for the first page of the chapter. Setting the TOC entry/book to start a new chapter allows you to select the First page for that page layout; otherwise, it would use Normal or Left/Right, depending on how you set up your page layout. The start a new chapter option is also used if you want to use the chapter number variable in figure or table numbers, for example.

I just wanted to clear that up in case you came across a similar situation later and needed help figuring out how to do it. For the particular issue you outlined above, Laura's suggestion of setting a page-break attribute on your heading tags is the best solution.

[jaybird]

Regarding Page Break Before in Heading stylesheet...good point, yes I do. Thank you, I can defintely work with that. But all the topics use the same heading style (H1), so I guess I should ask why Page Break Before is not working for those topics in the subbook?

[lacastle]

do you have it set for your heading levels to inherit the toc depth level? it would change the h1 to h2 since they are subtopics.
if you want to sometimes have h1 with a page break and sometimes without, you can add a class to your h1 style ("h1.break" or "h1.nobreak") and change the page-break-before property.

[jaybird]

Thnak you Laura, I will try that. And thank you Lisa for FYI.