Generalquote environments + ARABTeX -> weird page breaks

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Stefanie
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quote environments + ARABTeX -> weird page breaks

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I'm writing a paper and I have to use the quote environment quite a lot. This seems to have messed up page breaking. latex starts a new page in the output at the wrong places (way to early), even in the middle of the quote environment. \nopagebreak doesn't seem to help... what can i do to fix this?

EDIT: i found out that the problem occurs because of ARABTeX. If there's an arabic word in one of my quotes, the page layout is messed up and the page breaks very early.

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Stefanie
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Re: quote environments + ARABTeX -> weird page breaks

Post by Stefanie »

If there are other people with this problem: i fixed this by fiddling with \setlength{\textheight}{0.8\paperheight} and \setlength{\textheight}{0.7\paperheight}. The first command increases the height of the text (to the effect that page breaks occur later), the second one resets it to default (at least in the default article documentclass).
this way i could get "normal" page breaks. it's not a very orthodox solution, though.
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