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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Restricting pagebreaks within a paragraph in LaTeX
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Date: 20 Aug 90 06:16:31 GMT
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In article <38193@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes...

>I am looking for a way to prohibit page breaking within certain paragraphs
>with LaTeX.  Specifically in \verse mode, I have 4 line stanzas that I
>want to be unbroken.  Between stanzas, paged breaking is acceptable.
>I have tried the various LaTeX commands that seemed obvious, but to no
>avail.  Any suggestions?

Between lines, try using \\* rather than \\ (take a look at the
entry for \\ in the reference manual section of the LaTeX
manual).

-dh


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