Re: Grouping text

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:56

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In article <1992Aug18.221125.32592@ans.net>, db3l@ans.net (David Bolen) writes...
>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.
> 

Text placed inside of a \vbox{} will not be split across a page boundary.
See the TeXbook for more info about \hbox's and \vbox's.

\vbox [to <dimen>]{%

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}%

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