[Tex/LaTex] pagebreak if only 1/4th of the page left

page-breaking

I have a document with some tabulars one after the other. I want the tabulars begin on a new page if there is very little room left on the actual page, like 1/4th. Otherwise, there should not be a pagebreak. So I need some kind of conditional \pagebreak, how can I do this?

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The needspace package is very useful for that. Write for example:

\needspace{.25\textheight}
\begin{tabular}
...

If there's not enough space as requested, approximately, a page break would be inserted. There's further a command \Needspace which is exact but less efficient. A starred version \Needspace* works flush bottom instead of ragged bottom which is the behavior of the non-starred command.

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[Tex/LaTex] Begin every chapter on a new page using LyX

As Seamus commented, most classes already start chapters on a new page. This requires using the \chapter command.

However, if you use \section commands, page breaks would not automatically happen, this is not very common for smaller sections. But you can define it, by this modification in your LyX document preamble:

\let\stdsection\section
\renewcommand*{\section}{\clearpage\stdsection}

The first line stores the original \section command with a different name, then \section is redefined to include a \clearpage before. A good effect is, that \clearpage forces figures and tables to be printed out before the next page is started, so they don't float into the next section. That's why I did not use just \newpage.

However, I strongly recommend using a class with \chapter commands, such as book, report, memoir, scrbook or scrreprt. The last two are from the great KOMA-Script bundle.

[Tex/LaTex] \AddEverypageHook at end of page

Have you checked out Martin Schroder's everyshi package? Quoting from the introductory section of the package's user guide:

This package provides the hooks \EveryShipout and \AtNextShipout whose arguments are executed after the output routine has constructed \box255, and before \shipout is called.

An example application for this package would be a package for adding text to the bottom of each page. Such a package does exist: prelim2e.

Another application is a package for adding pictures to every page: esopic.

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