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I've recently begun using TeX as my primary formatter after using Scribe
extensively in college (I went to CMU so it was the de facto choice :-)), and
Script with Bookmaster for the past few years (at IBM).  In general, it's
taken a bit of reorientation, but TeX looks very nice.  I've been able to get
it to do everything I want, with the exception of one major (at least to my
mind) problem to which I can't seem to find a good solution.

In both Scribe and Script (and for that matter WordPerfect that I have to use
occasionally at the office) there was the notion of "grouping" a selection of
text such that it would not get split across a page boundary.  I tend to use
this in cases where I don't want an actual figure, but want to make sure that
certain text stays together, be it an inline textual figure, or making sure
that an item title stays with it's description, or just that several points in
a list aren't fragmented by a page boundary.

All I've been able to find in TeX is a good deal of flexibility in describing
valid points for making a page break, but that's pretty much the opposite of
what I want.  I want to describe what to keep together, rather than what not
to keep together.  I almost thought I had what I want with \filbreak, but
found that once I started using it to delineate a section of text, I was
pretty much forced to use it throughout my document, which is unwieldy.

Does anyone know how I might accomplish groups?  I can't believe that I'm the
only person that likes to use the concept of grouping in a document, as
opposed to placing markers to allow breaks, so I figure the problem must have
been solved before.  Is this something that can be done as an intrinsic part
of TeX or do I need an additional package?

I might mention that I'm mostly using LaTeX (I tend to like it better than
plain TeX - probably my Scribe background), if that makes any difference.

Any help would be appreciated.

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