Good advice, DuckieTigger. In fact, I have resorted to that for h1 and h2 headings. It's mostly the h3 ones that give me grief because a page break before those would make reading feel a bit choppy, even if not technically interrupting the so-called flow of the text. More than 1/3 of a blank page at the bottom would make me feel like, "Hey, is that the end of the chapter? What gives?" For h1, h1, that's an okay reaction but not for h3. So I'll probably just take my chances on a few h3s standing alone at the bottom of a page. I think I can live with that.
But the other, where I want to avoid a page-break inside, is boxed text. This is non-fiction, and in one h1 chapter there are nine h2 sections offering nine steps for the reader to follow. At the end of each h2 is a box containing 3-6 lines of text succinctly summarizing the takeaway. I would much rather have the box intact at the top of the next page, rather than a split box with one or two lines at the bottom of a page and the rest on the next page. But … not working. I may throw a hail-Mary and make the boxes graphics instead, which would not look as good, but would solve the problem. I don't really want to go that route, but might have no choice.
Last edited by RonOnThePond; 01-26-2023 at 07:02 AM.
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