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Originally Posted by hobnail
Those both strike me as ugly kludges. The first one, with the div, would probably push the header and first paragraph onto the next page. Since you're somewhat amenable to having a page break before the subheading maybe it's time to start thinking about forcing a page break before each subheading. (Every morning when you wake up tell yourself it wouldn't be that bad and maybe eventually you'll accept it. Heh.)
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OMG, forcing page breaks before subheadings?
NON! Jeeze, Louise, you'd have breaks all over the damned place. That would drive me nuts as a reader. It's bad enough that this bloody widows-orphans stuff has started to kick in, so you're
CONSTANTLY seeing shortened pages and thinking that the next page is the start of a new chapter--and it's not--but to do this now for a subhead?
I would probably end up throwing a device across the room if that happened.
FWIW, we've made well over 5,000 ebook files at my shop, and we've never found a remotely viable, decent, reliable, attractive way to force PRINT convention layout elements, like headings and the first paragraph, to remain together.
A better approach is to realize that it's not in print--it's
an eBook. The more you try to force it to emulate print and follow those conventions, the more kludgey and fugly and not-user-friendly the resulting book will be.
That's my $.02 and most of it is entirely my opinion. The part about never having found a better way is fact.
Hitch