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From: rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley)
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Subject: Re: Restricting pagebreaks within a paragraph in LaTeX
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Date: 20 Aug 90 18:31:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu's message of 20 Aug 90 06:16:31 GMT

In article <8140@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes:

    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).

Probably a stupid question but...

Is there any way to do this `automatically'; that is, how can I define
an environment which will keep a given block of text on one page
without either having to end each line with \\* ( thus making the
whole thing unreadable ) or putting it in a vbox ( which will set the
glue and prevent the normal line spacing adjustments ).

Thanks for any help, I'm sure it is burried in the TeX book somewhere
but I can't see it.

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