>From the RTF Specification version 1.9.1 (published in 2008): \pagebb is for "Break Page before the paragraph." It is a paragraph-formatting property. It can appear anywhere in the body of a paragraph, not just at the beginning. It is also inheritable onto subsequent paragraphs until a paragraph with \pard (reset of default properties) occurs.
\page is a special character (occurring as a <spec> in the character-text syntax). It signals a required page break. It is a companion of \column (required column break) and \line (required line break without paragraph break), \tab, etc. - Dennis PS: The specification is available here: <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10725>. This is considered the final specification for RTF. That's because there is a general extension mechanism for embedding XML. The handling of additional features (in Microsoft Office 2010, for example) is now by embedding the OOXML XML as necessary. RTF already has provision for graceful degradation when unknown up-level features are encountered by a down-level implementation. -----Original Message----- From: Lin Yuan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 23:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Problem with page break in export to rtf [ ... ] So I think the root cause of the issue is that in AOO there is only one type of page break although there are different UI entry for it. But in RTF there are two type of page breaks. I don't know exactly the difference between \page and \pagebb. But seems AOO's "fo:break-before" is more similar as "\pagebb". Both of them is a property of a paragraph style. [ ... ]
