Hello all,
I have been handed an application with a failing
business requirement, and I have had little luck
in remedying the error.
The app sends xml similar to the following:
<letter>
<section title="The Boarding House">
Mrs Mooney was a butcher's daughter. She was a woman who
was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman.
She had married her father's foreman, and opened a butcher's
shop near Spring Gardens. But as soon as his father-in-law was
dead Mr Mooney began to go to the devil. He drank, plundered
the till, ran headlong into debt. It was no use making him
take the pledge: he was sure to break out again a few days
after. By fighting his wife in the presence of customers and
by buying bad meat he ruined his business. One night he went
for his wife with the cleaver, and she had to sleep in a
neighbour's house.
</section>
<section title="After the Race">
The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like
pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the
hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch
the cars careering homeward, and through this channel of
poverty and inaction the Continent sped its wealth and
industry. Now and again the clumps of people raised the
cheer of the gratefully oppressed. Their sympathy, however,
was for the blue cars - the cars of their friends, the French.
</section>
<signature>
James Joyce
</signature>
<CCs>
<cc>Poe</cc>
<cc>Maupassant</cc>
</CCs>
<docstamp>
JJ:1914:ss12345
</docstamp>
</letter>
Currently, the app turns each element into an fo:block.
The signature, CCs, and docstamp elements are kept together
using (hopefully) appropriate keep statements.
section elements are turned into blocks with the attribute
widows=3
to apply a better pagesetting technique. This works as expected
for sections that would widow lines -- the appropriate number
of lines starts the page, and in the case of the last section,
the text is followed by the sig/cc/docstamp trio correctly.
However, the business requires that the sig/cc/docstamp
combination never appear on a page by itself -- there must
always be at least 2 lines of text preceding it.
Is there a way to force a certain number of lines to the
next page, when the content of the block will fit within
a page? I'm fine with always requiring a page break before
the ending trio, just entirely flustered on how to grab
2 lines from the block before.
Thanks for your help,
-troy
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