I have recently taken a deep dive back into Studio segmentation rules.
One thing I want is to not break a segment based on a page break.
If a sentence is split by a page break, I want the segment to be the whole sentence.
I have searched high and low, but cannot find this.
The only thing I could find is articles on errors when segments were merged over page breaks.
My long term question would if Studio doesn't break on other tags, such as <bold>, why are other tags absolute segment-breakers? I read your other posts on line-breaks, and it seems these can go either way in Studio. Are paragraph markers more like page breaks or line breaks?
<bold> is an inline tag, unless it's a complete sentence in which case the tags are moved externally where there is a break in the segment anyway.
Page breaks are treated as external tags so they force a break. You would not normally expect a page break to spilt a sentence unless it was an error or as in your case deliberate.
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I actually think you could treat page break as an inline tag, because, like other inline tags, there will almost always be another marker for a break, such as punctuation or a paragraph or table cell marker.
When you press ctrl+enter in Word, it inserts not only a page break, but paragraph markers also. You have to take out the paragraph markers additionally if you don't want them.
As I wrote, I have a work-around, but I think theoretically, one could think about classifying a page break as an inline tag rather than an external one.
I think it may be treated as an external tag because it is counter-intuitive to think of a page break as an inline tag, but I think in practice it actually could more correct in theory and better in practice to classify it as an inline tag.
I realize I need to work with my work-around in the short-medium term, but maybe this might be something to put in the idea bin long-term. :)
I actually think you could treat page break as an inline tag, because, like other inline tags, there will almost always be another marker for a break, such as punctuation or a paragraph or table cell marker.
I don't see this usecase at all. It's too much of an exception and would be completely wrong for most users. Automatic page breaks are added by Word and we don't set these as external tags because we know what they are. Manual page breaks are different and I think most users apply them when they have completed writing about one thing and now want to start a new page. Typically this would not be in the middle of a sentence.
But if you have a case for it I suggest you post your idea here:
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