[net.text] more on floating keeps

carlc@tektronix.UUCP (Carl Clawson) (02/08/85)

In an earlier posting I asked for help with a problem:  the floating
keep in the -ms macro package causes an unwanted break.

I looked also at the situation where the keep actually does float.  In
that case, a break occurs at the point the keep was invoked, but not
where the keep actually prints.  Example

     Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
                  (page boundary)
        (a very nice display in the middle of a paragraph with no break)    
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

.KF was invoked after the second line of "blahs",
and causes a break there, even though the display is output on the
second page.  (with no break, incidentally).

Weird, weird, weird.

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