Daniel James wrote:
Actually there *may* be a solution to the wrongly-keeping-long-blocks-together issue: insert a "<?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?>" inside the Docbook XML for the long block, that should then allow it to page break and stop it from starting a new page. The problem is while I think I can see how to insert this into quickbook, I can't see how to insert this into your ref.xml at present :-(
I tried adding it to the synopses in the boostbook xsl, but it didn't seem to make much difference. The change to the xsl is at:
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/46060
If we could get this to work I could try to develop something a bit more sophisticated.
Unfortunately having now looked a bit deeper it appears that dbfo keep-together instructions aren't processed by verbatim blocks :-( Indeed, because the keep-together instruction is placed in an attribute set and just injected "as is" into the fo:block by the verbatim processing xsl there appears to be not much we can do :-( I'll see if I can a docbook XSL mailing list to ask about this as it would be nice to have this solved. John.