Ihor Radchenko writes: > Do note that page breaks may or may not lay between paragraphs or Org > elements. By its nature, page break is an object (in Org terminology).
Indeed, page break can be placed anywhere. But inserting it before paragraphs, at least in Org, is the least compromised by the idiosyncrasies of each format: odt or LaTeX. And the most format-agnostic. And on the other hand, in LaTeX and odt it's also the safest place to put them, unless you want to add some fine-tuning in either case. Why would anyone want to add an explicit page break and interrupt the natural flow of text on the page? It occurs to me that for two possible reasons: a) for (let's say) "expressive" reasons, that is, because you want certain content to start on a new page. And b) out of simple necessity, to fix something you don't like: carry a line to the next page, fix an overfull vbox in LaTeX, or a thousand other things. Cuts by necessity can occur within the paragraph. But cutting a page within a paragraph is a tricky thing. In libreoffice (and I think in any word processor) you can place the cursor where you want to cut and press control + enter. This creates a new page but also creates two paragraphs, and we only want one paragraph, but with a page break in the middle. I suppose that a forced line break should be added at the end of the previous paragraph (and probably produce a very ugly result with very wide spaces between words). But the section on the next page would still be a new paragraph for libreoffice. LaTeX is more refined, but the process and the caveats are the same. \clearpage adds a new page (and a new paragraph) and terminates the old one. And \pagebreak simply adds a page break (and the best place to add it is between two paragraphs, I insist). If you have \flushbottom active (by default in the book class), with \pagebreak LaTeX will do its best to match the page height after \pagebreak, inserting the necessary vertical space before the break. If you want to insert a page break (\pagebreak) within a paragraph, LaTeX will choose the end of the line to break. If you want to force the break exactly there, you'll probably want to put something like \linebreak\par\pagebreak; again, you will now find yourself with two paragraphs, and you will need to add at least one \noindent before the second paragraph. With all this, I mean: to what extent should Org care about all these details, more related to fine-tuning the output format? Best regards, Juan Manuel
