Hi,
What you need here are integer values for keep-together and keep-with-*.
Unfortunately, FOP doesn't implement this yet.
 
As a workaround, you can approximatively evaluate the text length and choose to 
keep or not...
 
Pascal

        -------- Message d'origine-------- 
        De: Lewis, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
        Date: jeu. 20/09/2007 08:11 
        
        

        Yes, but the problem there is: If I do that, the long body text will
        cause an overflow, and half of my text ends up in nirvana  ;-)
        
        Best regards,
        Eric
        
        ________________________________
        
                Von: Pascal Sancho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 16:47
               
                Eric,
                
                You should use keep-with-next on title (or keep-with-previous on
        1st para), that should do the trick.
                
                Pascal
        
                        -------- Message d'origine--------
                        De: Lewis, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                        Date: mer. 19/09/2007 16:33
                       
        
                        Hi
                       
                        I'm having again a problem of page breaks and keeping
        things together (I
                        last wrote to this list in June 07).
                       
                        I have a paragraph with a title and a body afterwards
        that must be kept
                        together if possible. As a fix to my last problem, I
        check whether the
                        title and body should be kept together always or whether
        I let FOP do
                        the page breaks.
                       
                        This means I have something like
                          <xsl:template match="histTxt">
                            <fo:block>
                              <xsl:choose>
                                <xsl:when test="string-length(.) >
        $maximumLength">
                                  <xsl:attribute
        name="keep-together">auto</xsl:attribute>
                                </xsl:when>
                                <xsl:otherwise>
                                  <xsl:attribute
        name="keep-together">always</xsl:attribute>
                                </xsl:otherwise>
                              </xsl:choose>
                              <xsl:apply-templates />
                            </fo:block>
                          </xsl:template>
                       
                        In apply-templates, some escaped pseudo-HTML is
        converted into XSL-FO,
                        so at the end I have something like
                        <fo:block keep-together="always">
                           <fo:inline font-weight="bold">my title</fo:inline>
                           <fo:block/>my body bla bla bla bla
        bla<fo:block></fo:block>
                        </fo:block>
                       
                        and for really long texts
                        <fo:block keep-together="auto">
                           <fo:inline font-weight="bold">my other
        title</fo:inline>
                           <fo:block/>Really, really long text, much longer than
        I care to type
                        here...<fo:block></fo:block>
                        </fo:block>
                       
                        Most of the blocks are used for breaks, as you can see.
                       
                        However, my problem is that at some point, the bold
        title is standing on
                        its own, and the body appears on the next page, like
                       
                        my other title
                        --------------------------- page break
                        Really, really long text,
                        much longer than I care to
                        type here...
                       
                        Not really nice! :-)
                        But hey, that's what orphans and widows are for, but
        after using them:
                       
                          <xsl:template match="histTxt">
                            <fo:block>
                              <xsl:choose>
                                <xsl:when test="string-length(.) >
        $maximumLength">
                                  <xsl:attribute
        name="keep-together">auto</xsl:attribute>
                                  <xsl:attribute
        name="orphans">3</xsl:attribute>
                                  <xsl:attribute name="widows">3</xsl:attribute>
                                </xsl:when>
                                <xsl:otherwise>
                                  <xsl:attribute
        name="keep-together">always</xsl:attribute>
                                </xsl:otherwise>
                              </xsl:choose>
                              <xsl:apply-templates />
                            </fo:block>
                          </xsl:template>
                       
                        The result is much worse, the titles appear as orphans
        all over the
                        place. Besides, as I understand the default is 2, so
        this should never
                        happen (?)
                       
                        I'm certainly doing something wrong, but what? I'd be
        glad for any hints
                        :-)
                       
                        Best regards,
                        Eric
                       
        
        
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