Spacing between Chapter title and first paragraph sometimes changes
H, I'm typesetting a memoir for a friend and I've come across a strange problem which I'm trying to solve. The memoir will be A5 format and has quite a few chapters which are less than a page long. I noticed that for some chapters the distance between the the chapter head and the first paragraph were not aligned in double page view. You can see this quite clearly in the attached screenshot. I was given a docx file consisting of 80 chapters and and appendices which I converted to individual xhtml files. The resulting xhtml files are very simple and the format is as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../styles/style001.css" type="text/css" /> <title></title> </head> <body>
On 1/13/2025 6:09 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
H,
I'm typesetting a memoir for a friend and I've come across a strange problem which I'm trying to solve. The memoir will be A5 format and has quite a few chapters which are less than a page long. I noticed that for some chapters the distance between the the chapter head and the first paragraph were not aligned in double page view. You can see this quite clearly in the attached screenshot.
I was given a docx file consisting of 80 chapters and and appendices which I converted to individual xhtml files. The resulting xhtml files are very simple and the format is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../styles/style001.css" type="text/css" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Reply
Thanks for your reply Hans. The h2's all have the same format except that the id attribute changes for each h2, which is to be expected. I tried \chapter{xmltext{#1}} as you suggested, and still the same problem. I've created a new tex file, which only contains the problematic files and compiled it. Still the same problem. I also removed the id attribute from the h2's, since I don't use that for typesetting and still the same effect. So I think I'll leave it tonight and start from scratch tomorrow and have a look through some other books I've typeset. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks for your suggestions. Best Wishes Keith McKay On 13/01/2025 18:08, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 1/13/2025 6:09 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
H,
I'm typesetting a memoir for a friend and I've come across a strange problem which I'm trying to solve. The memoir will be A5 format and has quite a few chapters which are less than a page long. I noticed that for some chapters the distance between the the chapter head and the first paragraph were not aligned in double page view. You can see this quite clearly in the attached screenshot.
I was given a docx file consisting of 80 chapters and and appendices which I converted to individual xhtml files. The resulting xhtml files are very simple and the format is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../styles/style001.css" type="text/css" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
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On 1/13/2025 8:52 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
Thanks for your reply Hans. The h2's all have the same format except that the id attribute changes for each h2, which is to be expected. I tried \chapter{xmltext{#1}} as you suggested, and still the same problem. I've created a new tex file, which only contains the problematic files and compiled it. Still the same problem. I also removed the id attribute from the h2's, since I don't use that for typesetting and still the same effect. So I think I'll leave it tonight and start from scratch tomorrow and have a look through some other books I've typeset. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks for your suggestions.
strip down the xml to a few chapters (titles plus a few lines of text per chapter) and send the lot to me and i'll have a look Hans ps \showmakeup[line,glue] might give a clue ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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