[duxuser] Re: skipped lines
- From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:50:05 -0500
For your first question, you use the Conditional Page command,
[cp1:1]
to make sure there is enough room for the first line. I find it makes more
sense generally to use
[cp2:1]
or
[cp2][sc1:0]
so that a header line and the first line of its paragraph are kept together.
At 04:59 PM 11/5/02 -0000, you wrote:
>Steve and George
>
>Thanks for your help with the tab stops. This works beautifully. Where would
>we all be without you?
>
>Now to my other questions
>
>1. Is there a code in Duxbury which skips lines conditionally i.e. not if
>there is a page break where the [sk1] code is. I want a blank line after
>certain bits of text, but where a page break intervenes the blank line
>appears at the top of the next page which is not really necessary. If I
>block protect the whole lot it may move everything to a new page, wasting
>even more lines. So I just wondered if there was a "skip lines except for
>where a page break occurs" code? Maybe I'm asking too much.
>
>2. Is there a way of having duxbury predict where a running header needs to
>go? I'll try to explain.
>page 1 has a heading Kittens Need Good Homes. I have also set a running
>header of the same name.
>
>The text underneath this heading runs on to page 2 and then onto page 3 line
>3.
>Page 3 line 4: another heading Feeding your Kitten. running headerchanged
>to "feeding your kitten"
>
>The running header "Kittens need good homes" which I set at the beginning of
>page 1 appears on page 2 (as it should) but also on page 3, even though the
>majority of the text on page 3 is about feeding kittens.
>Is there a way of making DBT put the new running header on the next page at
>the top of that page, even though the former piece of text is still
>finishing off?
>Maybe I'm asking too much here.
>Hope somebody understands, 'cos not sure I do (grin) .
>
>Thanks
>
>Lisette
>
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