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

[Stefan Wachter]

Hi Ian,

thanks for the tip. It works!

--Stefan

PS: Can you explain what the macro does?

> 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.
> -- 
> ---- Ian Collier : imc at comlab.ox.ac.uk : WWW page below
> ------ http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/imc.shtml
> 
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