Page Layout ⇒ Finding how much space is left on a page

[stormy]

Hello,

I am trying to generate a very large (>100 pages) latex document consisting mostly of a number of \longtables. I would like to pagebreak in a good way...I don't want only a couple lines from a table on one page, and the rest of it on the next page. Right now I have a lot of tables with page breaks very close to the start or the end, and I would like to avoid this. I put \pagebreak[3] commands between all of the tables, but the problem persists. \pagebreak[4] commands have the opposite problem, they put page breaks between tables that could fit on the same page. I've tried fiddling with \clubpenalty and \widowpenalty also, with no effect.

Is there a better way to implement page breaks when dealing with large tables? If not, is there a variable associated with how much space is left on the page? Perhaps if I could figure out how much space was left on the page, I could compare with the size of the table and decide to pagebreak based on that.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi stormy,

welcome to the board!
Perhaps the needspace package could be useful for you.

Stefan

[stormy]

That is what I was looking for. Thanks!