Paragraph title in one page, text in the next

[Arkadian]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The DOCX plugin only supports keeping the contents of a single paragrpah on the same page, not multiple paragraphs. If you want to keep a set of paragrpahs together in EPUB you need to wrap them in div tags like this

<div style="page-break-inside:avoid">
<p>
<p>
...
</div>

OK, I have done this:

<div style="page-break-inside:avoid">
	<h3 id="id_RefHeading__5377_1529499100" class="block_31">Title goes here </h3></ol>
	<ol class="list_1">
	<li class="block_10" value="461">Yadda yadda yadda.<sup class="calibre6"><sup id="back_note_97" class="noteref"><a href="index_split_026.html#note_97" title="97" class="calibre2">97</a></sup></sup></li></div>
	<li class="block_10">blah blah.</li>

but the outcome is that the text after the h3 heading (that is including the "blah blah" bit) has disappeared in its entirety, only to reappear at the beginning of the following chapter.

[kovidgoyal]

With EPUB (as opposed to a traditional static layout format like PDF) you are at the mercy of the renderer, different renderers will have different levels of support for avoid, so the best you can do is put it in and hioe that in time the renderers will be fixed.

[Arkadian]

Hi Kovid,

it would be fine if it did nothing... Instead it made x number of pages disappear, until the following h1

Besides, forgot to say that in the editor it did do nothing (nothing obvious at least)

[kovidgoyal]

The editor is a preview, if you read the notes in the preview panel, before opening any file, you will see that it will not show you any page breaks/page margins at all. So naturally, an instruction to avoid page breaks will not do anything.

And I tried the code you posted, it caused nothing to disappear for me.

[Arkadian]

OK, I am not one for giving up easily

Have tried again here:

23 <div style="page-break-inside:avoid">
24	<h3 id="id_RefHeading__5353_1529499100" class="block_31">“Senza zucchero aggiunto*”</h3></ol>
25	<ol class="list_1">
26	<li class="block_10" value="342">blah blah</div> <br class="calibre7"/>nonsense, nonsense, nonsense.</li>

When I the try to check the code within the editor with F7 I get this error:

ERRORE: Parsing failed: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 23 and ol, line 24, column 48****[Zucc_agg_013.html]

What has gone awry?

If I go down the "automatic fix route", the </div> gets moved to the end of the h3 line, but that is not going to be of much use, is it?

If I try and position the end div elsewhere, I get the same error... it wants to be ONLY at the end of the h3 line.

[kovidgoyal]

HTML tags have to be nested properly. You cannot insert a closing tag before the closing tag of a child. That means you have to do this:

<div>
<h3></h3>
<ol>
<li>...</li>
</ol>
</div>

[Arkadian]

Sorry about that. I thought I had allowed for that, but clearly not... I have been more careful now and it works like a charm.
It will be a bit tedious to have to edit all those strings, but there you go

THANKS a lot

[BetterRed]

@Arkadian - I see that Kovid has helped you solve the problem.

I had a look at your OTT file, couldn't find an OTT to DOT(X) converter that worked, so I used brute force, looked at in HEX, and that gave me a clue as to how to wrangle into Word.

Can I ask how 'well' you know Open Office Writer. From what I can see from that test OTT you haven't used Writer's template feature as I suspect it should be used, which I assume is like Word's templates should be used, given Writer is reverse engineered Word.

Don't worry, you're not alone, most people don't use Word's templates as they should be used.

Let me know if you want to take this fork of the thread (fix the problem at source) any further. If you do then I'd probably first suggest you try BobC's suggestions. Then I'd probably suggest you try attaching Writer's default template to the document.

BR