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Subject:Re: Page break as local formatting permitted? From:"Caroline Tabach" <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com> To:SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:22:53 +0300
I much prefer using keep with next, rather than inserting page breaks
locally, since if you add a lot of text or pictures, it can turn out that
the page break is no longer necessary.
On 6/26/08, SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Absolutely correct! We don't have a style guide and "it is a power
> struggle". I guess the solution to this is the style guide.
>
> On 6/26/08, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > In most cases local page break and paragraph return formatting isn't
> > affected if the styles are updated. There isn't a "standard best
> practice"
> > answer to your question, which is why I asked what your style guide
> > says about handling this. The issue is developing an internal standard
> > for the documents you prepare, defining specific conditions under
> > which the standard can be bent or broken and then keeping everyone
> > working within them. Your current situation sounds more like a power
> > struggle between writers than a methodology issue.
> >
> > Gene Kim-Eng
> >
> >
> >
> --
> Caroline Tabach
> Technical Writer
> e-mail: caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com
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