Open the dialog box by clicking on the group arrow
in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Home | group Paragraph.
On the Text flow tab, you can, among other things, set restrictions for automatic page breaks to prevent unaesthetic page breaks.
To do so, use the following options in the section Paragraph control:
▪Keep with next
| If this option is enabled, TextMaker prevents the current paragraph from being separated from the following paragraph by an automatic page break. Instead, TextMaker inserts the break before the current paragraph. |
| If you have selected several paragraphs, these paragraphs and the next paragraph after them will be kept together. |
| Application example: If you enable Keep with next for a heading, you can avoid the situation in which a heading would fall at the end of a page and the related text would start on the following page. |
▪Keep together
| Enabling this option prevents TextMaker from inserting a page break in the middle of the paragraph. TextMaker then puts the automatic page break before the paragraph instead, so that all of it falls on the next page. |
| The same applies to column breaks (for multi-column text). |
▪Avoid widows/orphans
| This option prevents the occurrence of widows or orphans in paragraphs. A widow or orphan occurs when a single line of a paragraph is on one page, while the rest of the paragraph is on another page. Widows and orphans are not particularly visually appealing and interfere with the reading of longer documents. |
| If you enable this option, the page break will be automatically corrected in such a case to ensure that at least two lines of the paragraph appear on each page. If this is not possible because, for example, the paragraph consists of only two lines, the whole paragraph is placed on the next page. |
Non-breaking space
There is another way to control the text flow:
In certain cases, two words separated by a space must remain on the same line. TextMaker is unaware of this and may put the words on separate lines when it automatically inserts line breaks.
An example: You want the price "USD 29.80" to be written as one unbroken unit. You can ensure this by inserting a protected (non-breaking) space between "USD" and "29.80". To insert such a space, press the key combination Ctrl+Shift+Space instead of just the space bar.
When printed, the non-breaking space looks exactly like a normal space. It differs only in directing TextMaker to ensure that the designated words are not spread over two lines.