Here are three references regarding global page breaking. Maybe you can dig out those books and articles in your library -- unfortuately, only the first one is available in the internet. Most of them handle a slightly different topic, namely how to place floats.
Werner ====================================================================== Anne Brüggemann-Klein, Rolf Klein, Stefan Wohlfeil Pagination Reconsidered Technical Report 205, Department of Computer Science, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, 1996. http://wwwpi6.fernuni-hagen.de/publ/tr205.pdf Michael F. Plass and Donald E. Knuth. Choosing better line breaks. In J. Nievergelt, G. Coray, J.-D. Nicoud, and A. C. Shaw, editors, Document Preparation Systems: A Collection of Survey Articles, pages 221–242. Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1982. ISBN 0-444-86493-8. LCCN Z244 .D63 1982. US$46.50 Stefan Wohlfeil. On the Pagination of Complex, Book-Like Documents. Shaker Verlag, Aachen and Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1998. ISBN 3-8265-3304-6. 224 pp. DM 98.00. URL http://www.shaker.de/Online-Gesamtkatalog/Details.idc?ID=24201&CC=59311&IDSRC=1&ISBN=3-8265-3304-6&Reihe=15.
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