It's due to Latex refusing to commit the typographic crime of leaving a heading at the bottom of the page.
See: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57857/overfull-box-and-broken-pagination-with-page-that-contains-only-section-headings (That one was also asked by an Org user -- the ease of outlining a header structure in Org does tempt people into this situation, which one might wish that Latex could handle with less logic and more grace.) Note that this does /not/ happen with a list. (Try changing your long outline from headers to a list -- you can do so quickly by including the whole outline in the region and pressing `C-c -' -- and exporting it; you get page breaks as expected.) So it doesn't prevent you from exporting an outline to PDF. Yours, Christian jman <emacs-orgm...@city17.xyz> writes: > jman <emacs-orgm...@city17.xyz> writes: > >> 2) Compiling this other document will produce strange empty pages. The >> content of the ordered list >> doesn't fit one page and instead of filling the next page, it will just >> "overflow" and >> "disappear": >> https://paste.sr.ht/~jman/35434b0fdf08164abf6c59a413d60ea6a4d0e943 > > I think the problem is that for the above file is a single ordered list and > org-mode (or Latex?) for > some reason are unable to split it. For an automatic split to happen, the > single list must be split. > > So another hack is to add random text in between! Example: > > #+TITLE: Dokument Titel > #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[paper=a4paper,top=3cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry} > > * Title 1 > ** Subtitle > *** Subsubtitle > * Title 2 > ** Subtitle > *** Subsubtitle > * Title 3 > ** Subtitle > *** Subsubtitle > This text here is only to split the ordered list. > * Title 4 > ** Subtitle > *** Subsubtitle > * Title 5 > ** Subtitle > *** Subsubtitle > This text here is only to split the ordered list. > (etc.) > > Now we have multiple lists and the page split happens according to the top > and bottom margins set in > the header. > > I am not sure if there is a better way to work around this. > > Best,
