To flag elements for printing at the top of continuation pages in addition to, or instead of, the table base, include the option:

on those elements, where position is a number between 1 and 9 indicating the position in which that element is to be printed in relation to other held elements.

When a table is too long to fit onto one page, the base is automatically printed as the first row of all subsequent pages of the table. By flagging elements in the row axis with the option hold=n, you can determine which other elements should be printed in addition to or instead of the base.

This option can appear on any n statement, or an equivalent. The value of n can be between 1 and 9, with elements with lower values being printed before those with higher values. If two or more elements have the same hold value, the most recent one before the page break supersedes any previous elements with that value.

The default for non-base elements is no hold at all; the default for bases is hold=0 which causes them to be printed at the top of the table before any other held items. You can place your own hold value on base elements to override the default.

In a table created with this axis as the row axis, the base and the unweighted base will be printed at the top of every page of the table. Each of the subcategories in the axis has the option hold=2. This means that only the current category heading will be printed at the top of the continuation page. So, if the table breaks in the middle of the flavor category, the Flavor heading will appear underneath the two base elements at the top of the next page. The Color category is finished, so its hold flag has been overridden; the Packaging and Other comments categories have not yet been reached so their flags have not been set.

In a sorted table of nets specified as follows:

the n03s before the nets hugs with the nets when the hold flags are assigned. This can cause unwanted blank lines to appear at the top of continued tables. To prevent this, place nosort on the n03s before the nets.

Quantum starts a new page when:

In all cases, Quantum then prints the table headings and any held rows, followed by the row about to be printed. Finally, it puts the hold= in force for this row. In the situations described in the second and third bullet points, Quantum does not distinguish between printing and non-printing rows when looking ahead.

Once hold is in force at a given level, the only way to cancel it is to introduce a new hold at that level. To cancel a hold without generating a new printing element, enter a statement of the form:

n is the hold level to be canceled.