Shahnawaz,

The only way to stop a text merge is to use the <tm;0> macro.

Question: does the <h1> tag start a new page - or in other words: is it always placed at the top of a page or can it appear anywhere on the page?

If it is always placed at the top of a page, I would imagine that your h1 tag is embedded in bigger wrapper tag like <chapter>. If that is the case you can put your <tm;0> macro in the chapter end tag </chapter>.

Or if the h1 tag can appear anywhere on the page, maybe - if the layout allows it - abandon the text merge solution and switch to a text register/frills solution...? 

Hi Shahnawaz

The way we do this is to use a number register - so at the start of a Head1 you say have, for instance, <ns;20;1> and then when the close element is  encountered you have <ns;20;0>. Then in the mte that you are using you can test whether register 20 is set to 1 or 0 and either output something or not as the case may be. If you don't output the heading then you need to do the following <la;0><ld;0><le;0>.

Hope this helps

Chris

Hi Bart,

h1 tag can appear anywhere on the page and only when it comes on the top of page then I do not want to generate auto-generated head on the top of that particular page.

Is there any solution to handle it programmatically

Hi Chris,

I got it but how the system will understand that Head1 is on the top of the page or some where else on that particular page because my goal is to stop the repetition of Head1 when it comes on the top of the page.

Please advise. 

I am assuming you are using XML - if you are then my solutions works - we use it all the time. This also assumes that the </Head1> is on the previous page and not on the current page immediately before the next <Head1>.

Yes Chris I am using XML but still I am not getting you. <Head1>....</Head1> may comes multiple times on the same page and want to generate the last Head1 on the top if next page if there is no Head1 is coming on the top of the page. If Head1 is coming on top of the page then I do not want to generate the merge block text. Hope you understand my issue.  

Shahnawaz,

Is there any chance you can shift the repeated header into a frill block?
If that is the case you could suppress the h1if it falls at the top of the page (using the %blines) and always output the header in that frill block...
(this solution will not work if the header can be more than 1 line long)

Please see below as an example:

EITHER

<head1>(in if spec <ns;20;1><storeheading>)

Text

</head1>(in if spec<ns;20;0>)

<head1>(in if spec <ns;20;1><storeheading>)

Text

</head1>(in if spec<ns;20;0>)

Page break

Next Page - in mte test #20 = 0 therefore don't output heading

<head1 ...

OR

<head1>(in if spec <ns;20;1><storeheading>)

Text

</head1>(in if spec<ns;20;0>)

<head1>(in if spec <ns;20;1><storeheading>)

Text

Page break

Next Page - in mte test #20 = 1 therefore output last stored heading

Text

</head1>(in if spec<ns;20;0>)

The header can be of 2 lines and also I have to maintain some space between the repeated heads and the main block text. 

Is there anything else that I can try? 

Sorry Chris,

I am still not able to understand where we are checking the position of Head1 and in my case, there are three blocks and I need to generate the continued heads on the first block so I am using mtf macro.

It is not the case where the heads is flowing from one page to another page. These are the one or two liner heads and ends on each individual page itself.