How would you create a "continued" heading on next page?

[Thomas_Calvin]

Our style calls for a "(continued)" heading on the next page if a topic overflows onto it.

So the condition is: If the topmost line on the page isn't a heading (styled with "Heading"), put the text of the last heading on that line with "(-cont'd)" after it.

This needs to survive repagination, and yet not take up space when a heading naturally (or deliberately) falls at the top of the page.

What do you think is the best way to accomplish this?

[Laubender]

Hi @Thomas_Calvin ,

you said: " … This needs to survive repagination, and yet not take up space when a heading naturally (or deliberately) falls at the top of the page."

Well, the only automatism that I know of that could achieve this lies in InDesign's table header options.

Skip header in the first frame of a table and show header in the next frame of the same table. That means that every individual topic must be contents of an InDesign table object.

However, this table solution comes with a lot of pain points. Every paragraph of a single topic must be part of a body table cell. When a paragraph text exceeds the length of a table cell, two or more lines of text, it cannot be split to the next text frame automatically.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Thomas_Calvin]

Thanks. Yeah, that's definitely not going to happen. I've gone to a lot of trouble to put our documents into a continuous text flow; I'm sure not going to mess that up.

In the end it looks like my best bet for automating this is scripting, which will still require tedious page-checking afterward to see if it created any ugly pagination.

[Mike Witherell]

If you adjust your design slightly, you could build a Running Header at the left-top of the page. That would pick up the last used Heading Style and populate it into the Header (which you already have anyway) of the page. Why have 2 ways of showing document navigation at the top of the page and also at the top of the column of the page when it ends up being 1/4 " away from each other?

[Thomas_Calvin]

Thanks Mike. I considered allocating space there, but the problem is that it should not be present when the heading naturally falls at the top of the page.

Also I don't know what you mean by "two ways of showing document navigation." The heading that occurs in the text flow is not repeated in the page header currently.