Page Layout ⇒ not enough space for chapter

[kvaso]

Hi,
sometimes happens to me, that a chapter title is at the very bottom of the page and the content of the chapter is on the new page.
This does not look nice. Is there any way, how to tell latex to move the whole chapter to the new page, if there is not enough space in the current page?

I can use \pagebreak, but this "manual" aproach can be tricky...
also I googled samepage, but I am looking for something that can be applied globally on the whole document

thanks a lot

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It cannot happen with a real chapter, i.e. with \chapter. Do you mean \section? Or which command shows the problem here?

Stefan

[kvaso]

yes, sorry - I meant section

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, \chapter starts a new page by itself and is always on top. Normally a section heading should also not be at the end of a page. Do you have a small example document showing such a behavior, with your class and your settings resp. preamble?

Stefan

[kvaso]

unfortunately I am not able to create an example of this behaviour...
but here is a sample document with my preamble and it shows what I want to change in latex settings - there is a section with only 2 lines of content and then a page break

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Text lines at the end are normal - just a section title at the end would be strange.

Well, in any case you could use the needspace package, even if you don't like this case of the example.

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\usepackage{needspace}
...
\needspace{4\baselineskip}
\section{test}

Just specify the required space, here I said 4 lines, but you could give it in ex, pt, cm or any unit as well.

Stefan

[kvaso]

needspace looks like it is what I want, but is there any way, how to define it once in preamble, so I don't need to use needspace before each section?

thanks a lot

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sure, you could redefine \section, hook into a related macro, or patch it. Fore example:

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\usepackage{needspace}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\section}{\@startsection}{\needspace{4\baselineskip}\@startsection}{}{}

Stefan

[kvaso]

thanks a lot - the wonderful world of latex keeps me amazed all the time