Re: Page break as local formatting permitted?

[SB <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Our headings have "keep with next". It is more in situations when there are
only a couple of lines at the bottom of the page.

On 6/26/08, Caroline Tabach <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> 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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