[texhax] How to avoid page breaks between paragraphs and lists?

[Ian Collier]

Stefan.Wachter at gmx.de ("Stefan Wachter") writes in texhax:
>does anyone know how to avoid page breaks between paragraphs and lists? The
>TeX input has the following form:

>\parbox{\textwidth}{some text some text some text ...}
>
>% TeX inserts a page break here. The command \nopagebreak has no effect
>here!

>\begin{list}
>\item Item 1
>\item Item 2
>\end{list}

This is a hack, but:

{\makeatletter\gdef\reallynopagebreak{\par\nopagebreak\@nobreaktrue}}

Given that, the following document has no page break between the
paragraph and the list:

 \leftline{\parbox{\textwidth}{some text some text some text ...}}
 \reallynopagebreak
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Item 1
 \item Item 2
 \end{itemize}

Notes:
 1. Like many of LaTeX's boxes, \parbox places your paragraph box
    _inside_ the current paragraph (and it starts a new paragraph if
    necessary), so it's indented and thus extends beyond the right-hand
    margin.  Putting it within a \leftline stops this.
 2. \begin{list} isn't valid by itself in LaTeX - it's usually used
    indirectly by choosing a specific type of list (such as {itemize}).

If you don't want a pagebreak anywhere inside the list then the answer
is much easier: use the \samepage command.
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