[OS X TeX] unwanted page break

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Art Werschulz wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Attached you will find two files that illustrate a problem I'm having.  As you can see in the PDF file, there's a page break between the "Exercise 3.4" heading and the solution.   Needless to say, this is a really bad place for a page break.  It would make much more sense for the page break to appear before the heading, so that the heading and the solution would be together.
> 
> Note that the definition of the "solution" environment includes a \nopagebreak.  Moreover, I even inserted a \nopagebreak within the solution to this exercise.  This availed me not.
> 
> Of course, I could insert a \newpage before the solution to Exercise 3.4.  But this is a pretty brittle solution.  What I'm showing you here is really a stripped-down example of the real thing, which is the solutions manual to a textbook.  Moreover, rather than manually maintaining separate files for the text and the solutions manual, we're using the "answers" package to generate the solutions manual file automatically, which adds a bit more indirection to the stew.  So going back and fixing things manually would be a tedious, error-prone solution, which would break if we were to include additional exercises.
> 
> Do any of you have suggestions about how to fix this?  Many thanks!!
> 
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Howdy,

Others may have other solutions but if it only happens occasionally you cansimply force a page break before that problem with a \newpage command.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)