[xep-support] keeps

[daniel.r.boughton at rrd.com]

Does anyone have a link to a good tutorial or white paper on the logic 
behind how XEP handles keeps?

I have a document that currently spans three pages.  It is a group of 7 
table containing a total of 35 rows which are printed sequentially to give 
the illusion of one large continuous table.  I have no keeps at all in the 
document, and the current bias that XEP is exhibiting is to balance the 
rows between the three pages.  The total height of the table on each of 
the three pages is approximately the same.  The bias that I am looking for 
is to put as many rows as will fit on a page but still try and keep the 
individual tables together on a page and never display just a table 
heading on a page without at least one row from the table body.  I can't 
seem to find the right combination of keeps to accomplish this.  I seems 
as though the more keeps I add, the more the bias turns towards filling 
the pages at the end of the document first, even going as far as to add a 
fourth page and leave the first page completely blank (the first page has 
a smaller region-body than subsequent pages).  In other words adding keeps 
seems to have the complete opposite effect of what I am looking for.
 
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