[dbdoclet] Re: Page breaks and orphan headings

Hello,

>To get each class or interface description to start on a new page, I can =
>put a "break-before" attribute for sect1 in my customization layer. =
>However, the constant fields appendix is then messed up, and so is my =
>part 1, the descriptive text. Is there a simpler solution than creating =
>custom page masters?

would it help if dbdoclet inserts a processing instruction like <?dbdfo 
class-separator="page-break"?>
before each sect1? 

>There seem to be quite a lot of orphan headings in the PDF, for example =
>a method name is often the last line on the page, and the method =
>description starts on the next page. Bob Stayton wrote on the =
>docbook-apps mailing list that it is a FOP problem (no support for =
>keep-with-next). Can you confirm this? Any suggestions on another FO =
>processor that handles this properly?

Until now I always used fop and I know the problem :-(. I think you should ask 
this question in the 
docbook-apps mailinglist. 

Regards
Michael

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