On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 12:10:41AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 15:09:24 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 07:43:40AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 09:51:32 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 12:02:01AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >>>> >From 2c4fd06827d075a04c157d150cf036db1615f268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >>>> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 21:47:45 +0900
> >>>> Subject: [PATCH] qqz.sty: Permit column/page break in front of Quick Quiz heading
> >>>>
> >>>> It turned out that the definition of \QuickQuiz needs an explicit
> >>>> hint (\goodbreak) for LaTeX to be able to break column/page in front
> >>>> of it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Nice!
> >>>
> >>> Does it make sense to also add \goodbreak at the end of a Quick Quiz,
> >>> perhaps as follows? Doing so gets QQ2.11 all on one page in the
> >>> two-column version.
> >>>
> >>> Does it also make sense to encourage page breaks at the beginnings of
> >>> Quick Quizzes in the answer chapter?
> >>>
> >>> In other words, should I fold the diff below into your diff, or would
> >>> doing so break something?
> >>
> >> 2nd hunk causes the headings of Sections E.3, E.5, E.10, E.13, E.17,
> >> and E.20 to be at the bottom. So please just apply the first hunk.
> >> Also, the title and the change log need some adjustment.
> >
> > Good point, and done! Queued and pushed.
> >
> > I suspect that an appropriate "\if" statement would repair the second
> > hunk, but on the other hand, having quick quizzes broken across lines
> > in the answer section isn't as jarring as in the main body of the text.
>
> My guess is that the \par command in the beginning of \QuickQ implies
> breakable point and the extra \goodbreak confused the TeX engine.
Good point, that would do it!
> What you want is to keep an Answer to a Quick Quiz to be in the same
> column/page as much as possible?
I was mostly just experimenting. Yes, readers would want the quick quiz
and its answer in the same column, or, failing that, on the same page.
But the quizzes+answers are too long to do that without leaving lots of
ugly whitespace. So there will be breaks somewhere.
I was thinking in terms of encouraging LaTeX to keep the question part
in a single column, given that the questions are normally rather short.
But it certainly isn't worth having section headings at the bottom of
a column!
Thanx, Paul
> Thanks, Akira
>
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/qqz.sty b/qqz.sty
> >>> index 4dd411f..8bd80d9 100644
> >>> --- a/qqz.sty
> >>> +++ b/qqz.sty
> >>> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> >>> \refstepcounter{quickquizctrE}%
> >>> \hyperref[QQA.\thechapter.\thequickquizctr]{\rule{7pt}{7pt}}%
> >>> \label{QQE.\thechapter.\thequickquizctrE}}
> >>> -\newcommand{\QuickQuizEnd}{}
> >>> +\newcommand{\QuickQuizEnd}{\goodbreak}
> >>>
> >>> % To create a macro referencing the previously defined quick quiz:
> >>> % \QuickQuizLabel{\QQname}
> >>> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
> >>> \newcommand{\QuickQ}[1]{
> >>> \par
> >>> \refstepcounter{quickquizctrC}%
> >>> - \noindent
> >>> + \goodbreak\noindent
> >>> \QuickQHeading{QQA}{QQ}{\QuickQuizAnswerChapter.\thequickquizctrC} #1 ~ \\ }
> >>>
> >>> \newcommand{\QuickA}[1]{%
> >>>
