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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX sections and bottom of page
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Date: 15 Jan 91 16:45:12 GMT
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mdeck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mary Deck) writes:

>>sdawalt@cs.wright.edu (Shane Dawalt) writes:
>>>  It has been discovered that subsection headers and the text 

I've just been mailed an example where this can happen:
if there is a figure environment between the header and the text.
O.k. Don't do that. Put the figure after the first line of
text.

>I don't have the source, but this is an example of what happened:
>	\section{Something}
>	\subsection{Something Else}
>	\subsubsection{And Now, For Something Completely Different}
>	Here's some text in the subsubsection.  It doesn't really
>	matter what it is, as long as there's something here.

There are \nobreak commands after each heading level.
Meaning there is a penalty of 10000 of breaking after a header.
The only way to leave a header stranded is for all breakpoints to
have the same badness. And I don't see how that can be.
It is always possible to break above \section. If there is no 
stretchable glue on the page this will at most give an underfull
box.

I would still like to see concrete examples where it
happens nevertheless, and that have *only* headers and text.

Victor.