Lars Huttar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a document with a 2-column layout where we have section headers
> that keep ending up at the bottom of columns.
> E.g.
>
> \startsectionheading{2. Foo bar baz}\stopsectionheading
>
> where \startsectionheading is defined by:
>
> \definestartstop
> [sectionheading]
> [before={ \startalignment[middle]},
> after={\stopalignment \bigskip},
> style={\switchtobodyfont[...,...]}]
>
> In order to make sure this section heading gets followed by a line or
> two of actual text, I saw on web pages [1] and [2] that you can use
> \testpage[n] to check whether there is room for n more lines, and if
> not, to produce a page break. I checked the manual [3] and command
> reference [4] but couldn't find information about \testpage.
> Is there a corresponding command to conditionally produce a column break?
using \testpage in one column mode is ok; i use it often (if you look in
the source you will notice that there are several strategies related to it)
Hans
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