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I want to do something like the following in TeX:

\begin{nobreak}  

Text here will not split over pages, it will remain
as one continuous chunk. If there isn't enough room
for it on the current page a pagebreak will happen
before it and the whole chunk will start on the next
page.  

\end{nobreak}

Is this possible?

score 87 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 01 '22 at 02:06

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See Preventing page breaks between lines in the TeX FAQ. Basically, you may use one of the following:

the samepage environment;
a \parbox or a minipage;
the \needspace command of the package of the same name.

You may also need "to accept that not everything can be accomplished totally automatically".

edited Oct 01 '22 at 02:06

barbara beeton

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answered Oct 23 '10 at 21:58

lockstep

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Fair enough. I would have thought this was a desirable thing to have, especially for bullet lists etc. Oh well, thanks for your help. – fredley Oct 23 '10 at 22:00
@lockstep what controls the spacing prior to samepage environment, I am getting more vertical whitespace, is this normal? – Nicholas Hamilton Jun 07 '13 at 05:58
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Is there something equivalent to samepage but prevents column breaks in a two-column doc? (I want some chunk to stay in a single column). – Alec Jacobson Sep 04 '15 at 12:56
\nopagebreak worked for me.™ – Flash Sheridan May 31 '16 at 02:55

score 52 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:28

A \vbox (or \vtop) will never be broken across pages:

\vbox{%
  Text here will not split over pages, it will remain
  as one continuous chunk. If there isn't enough room
  for it on the current page a pagebreak will happen
  before it and the whole chunk will start on the next
  page.}

(unless you \setbox it, and later \unvbox it)

Marco Daniel · Answer 3 · 2012-03-27T05:08:55.373

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You can also use packages to create and format the environment via options:

package adjustbox
package mdframed with the option nobreak
package tcolorbox

edited Mar 27 '12 at 05:08

answered Oct 01 '11 at 08:01

Marco Daniel

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Using my adjustbox package here would be overkill. A normal minipage usually does it. Of course if you want to add frames or other modifications it is the way to go. – Martin Scharrer Oct 06 '11 at 19:53
@MartinScharrer: Of course it's only useful for modifactions. – Marco Daniel Oct 07 '11 at 09:45

John32ma · Answer 4 · 2021-01-07T20:24:29.727

\minipage works well when used in conjunction with the line width. To prevent overfull hbox's you need to use:

\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
content on same page
\end{minipage}

The key is \linewidth. \linewidth is equivalent to the text width (\textwidth) when not in a list. When in a list, \linewidth accounts for the indentation of the list. One other item that may or may not be so obvious is you should have a blank line before the minipage block. If you don't the minipage block will become part of the text it's attached to and cause the overfull hbox. Example:

content 1
\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
content on same page
\end{minipage}
content 2

In How make sure two elements stay on the same page? the suggestion was to use \textwidth but that doesn't work when in a list.

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