Jos'h Fuller <Jos'h.ful...@arcproductions.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm have an org-mode document something like this:
>
> * Period 2012-02-06 to 2012-02-12
> ** Asset
> *** DEPARTMENT
> | Data | Data | Data | Data |
> |-------------+------+------+------|
> | XXXXXX | 1 | 1 | 0 |
> | YYYYYY | 5 | 4 | 0 |
>
> (There are more "Assets", each with several DEPARTMENTS. The tables are
> short, perhaps 10-15 rows.)
>
> When I go to export a PDF, I will often get "DEPARTMENT" at the bottom of one
> page, with the actual data table at the start of the next. Is there any way
> to keep the heading together with the table?
>
Try adding
#+LATEX: \newpage
before the heading where you want the page break to occur:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Period 2012-02-06 to 2012-02-12
** Asset
#+LATEX: \newpage
*** DEPARTMENT
| Data | Data | Data | Data |
|-------------+------+------+------|
| XXXXXX | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| YYYYYY | 5 | 4 | 0 |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
You should probably do that as a last resort in the last editing
round, just to fix problematic spots.
> I tried using the longtable environment, but that just splits the
> table itself, so that I might have the heading at the bottom of the
> page with one row of the table and a continued message. I also tried
> the LaTeX directives \goodbreak before the headings and \nobreak
> between the headings and tables but they didn't seem to affect
> anything.
>
IIRC, these influence LaTeX's internal measures of whether this is a
good or bad place to do it, but there are several factors in competition
and they probably lose in comparison to the other factors.
\newpage otoh is Thor's hammer: no questions asked.
Nick
