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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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Well said. I've been saying something similar for some time. I agree that you do what works for an eBook and do not treat it like it's a pBook.