Jose Capco wrote:
In the amsmath package, when one starts a new section environment a pagebreak is not accompanied. This is sometimes awkward especially in cases when you for instance have just ended your old section that is almost in the end of the page (you get a one line section title that resides in the end of the page which looks really bad).
This only happens to me if I create a new section heading and do a view-dvi before writing anything in that section. Latex happily put such a section heading on the bottom of a page because the section is empty and ends at the same page. Therefore, latex knows that it did not make a "bad break" -- the section wasn't broken up after all.
Try writing some lines of text into that section. Now latex will see that having the section heading at the bottom of one page and the section text on the next page is a bad split, and move the section heading too to the next page. (Doing such a move is easier for latex, if the rest of the page contains some stretchable vertical space. (I.e. more sectioning, images, display formulas, or the use of "skip" instead of "indent" as paragraph separation.) Don't use "view-dvi" to check layout as you write - the breaking of lines and pages is greatly influenced by the _next_ paragraph(s) too, and so the layout isn't true at all when the next paragraph isn't written yet. Write everything (all content), include all graphichs and so on, before checking how the layout turns out. Chances are you'll be pleasantly surprised, and you don't waste time on layout during writing either. Forced page breaks _may_ be used to tidy up the final result, but you'd better be sure that you aren't going to add any more writing in the middle (or the beginning), and that you aren't going to add a figure or change the font or the margins or anything else that will affect line/page breaking at all. Because any such change may cause the forced page break to move to a very silly place, such as slightly below the top of a page . . . Helge Hafting
