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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: How do I prevent a page break at the beginning of a list in LaTeX?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 03:39:46 GMT
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pnr@ngs.fi (Pekka Nikander) writes:


>The subject says it all.  

[ example deleted ]

>What do I do wrong?

Nothing. This is one of those cases where Lamport's macros
are quite strong, and overrule much everything that you try.

What happens is that the list environment places a penalty
\@beginparpenalty. Therefore, setting this to a high value
should do it.

\makeatletter \@bginparpenalty=10000 \makeatother
is a piece of code that does it.

Victor.