Styler rule to combat when the Title of a topic is to close to the bottom of the page

[bfriesen]

We have an issue where we are often left with a level 2 or 3 title and short description stuck on the bottom of a page, while the rest of the topic is on the next page.

What are my options? My thought is to create a rule that would check the room left on the page, and if the title element was within the last 3 in. of the bottom of the page it would start the topic on a new page. Is that possible?

Bryon

[SimonTaylor]

Hi Bryon

You're going to need to use an APP source edit to test the baseline position of the title and, if it is greater than some threshold, output a page break or set the top margin to something large to force it over to the next page.

Something like

if (formatting.currentState.yBase > new fLength("200mm") {

  formatting.output(""); //For the page break or block.marginTop = "40mm" for the top margin

}

Put that edit in a property set and apply that to the title, then you can reuse it and it doesn't lock up your title from being styled.

Hope that helps

Simon

[bfriesen]

Hello Simon, I added the following according to your sample above

A publish throws a whole page of warnings and errors. How do I decipher the errors?

Bryon

<Record date="Mon Nov 25 10:35:22 2024" millis="1732552522"
severity="error" suppress="0">
<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Pg 15 Javascript&colon; ReferenceError: reference
to undefined property formatting.currentState.yBase onEnter([object
fBlock],[object Object])@stylesheet0:PropertySet:Page_Break:onEnter:1
onEnter([object fStreamPos])@stylesheet0:Element:title:title_in_procedure_in_division:onEnter:22
runMacro("sprint \"_app:spFormatWithIndex\"",true)@:0 @_app:FormatWithIndex:3
. [1500] (2:"stylesheet0:Element:title:title_in_procedure_in_division:onEnter"#105)
(1:"editorDom0"#{0;/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/techinfomap/division[1]/procedure[1]/title/#_app:Gentext})

</Message>
</Record><Record date="Mon Nov 25 10:35:22 2024" millis="1732552522"
severity="error" suppress="0">
<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Pg 15 Javascript&colon; stylesheet0:PropertySet:Page_Break:onEnter:1:
ReferenceError: reference to undefined property formatting.currentState.yBase
. [1500] (2:"stylesheet0:Element:title:title_in_procedure_in_division:onEnter"#105)
(1:"editorDom0"#{0;/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/techinfomap/division[1]/procedure[1]/title/#_app:Gentext})

</Message>
</Record><Record date="Mon Nov 25 10:35:22 2024" millis="1732552522"
severity="error" suppress="0">
<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Pg 15 Block end mismatch: Trying to end
(title_in_procedure_in_division) with current nesting (techinfomap_everywhere/division_everywhere_else/procedure_first_in_its_parent_anywhere_i7A22)
[1209] (2:"stylesheet0:Element:title:title_in_procedure_in_division:onExit"#0)
(1:"editorDom0"#{0;/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/techinfomap/division[1]/procedure[1]/titlealts})

</Message>
</Record><Record date="Mon Nov 25 10:35:22 2024" millis="1732552522"
severity="error" suppress="0">
<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Pg 15 Block end mismatch: Trying to end
(procedure_first_in_its_parent_anywhere_i7A22) with current nesting
(techinfomap_everywhere/division_everywhere_else) [1209] (2:"stylesheet0:Element:procedure:procedure_first_in_its_parent_anywhere_i7A22:onExit"#122)
(1:"editorDom0"#{0;/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/techinfomap/division[1]/procedure[2]})
<Level>ERROR</Level><Message>Pg 22 Table Column 1 too narrow to fit
text - skipped to next col [1200] (3:"_s_h_o_w_22_"#2861) (2:"stylesheet0:Element:image:image_everywhere_else:onEnter"#4021)
(1:"editorDom0"#{1;/RDStyle/ResolvedMap/techinfomap/division[1]/procedure[7]/procbody/procsteps[3]/procstep/procinfo/fig/#_app:Gentext/_sfe:BeforeOrAfterText/image})

</Message>
</Message>
</Record>

[SimonTaylor]

Hi Bryon
Sorry, I didn't get a notification that you'd had problems.

Did you try adding a big margin to the top of the block?

Simon