Text Formatting ⇒ keep with next paragraph?

[páibǎn]

This is my first posting on this site. After years of stalling, I'm finally transitioning from full-time use of Nisus (which I adore) and HTML to XeTeX. I make heavy use of CJK fonts and regular expressions. I am finishing an English-Chinese dictionary, organized in a PostgreSQL database and prepared for print using Python; I expect XeTeX to make automated typesetting convenient, flexible, reproducible, beautiful, and fun.

Here is my first question: I'm wondering if there is a normal way to ensure that a given paragraph is never separated by a page break from the beginning of the one following it. Nisus has a "keep with next paragraph" command that achieves this. I see a command

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\nopagebreak[number]

and wonder if that is what I should be using. Or is there something else?

Thanks for your patient help.

[localghost]

Use either this \nopagebreak command (without optional argument for highest priority) or put the concerned paragraph into a minipage environment.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[páibǎn]

Thanks. A related question is whether the two solutions you have named also work to keep the first paragraph in the same *column* as the beginning of the second. (I have seen mention of a \nocolumnbreak command, although it generates an error message in my current installation.)

[localghost]

At least the solution with the minipage environment should work. At the moment I don't remember where this \nocolumnbreak command comes from. Perhaps you can give a source where you found that.

[páibǎn]

I hypothesized the existence of a \nocolumnbreak command and then found a few examples on-line, searching Google together with "latex", but none of the ones I examined was very clear about usage, hence my question.

Looking again just now, I see it mentioned in the long list at http://www.math.utah.edu/cgi-bin/man2ht ... tty-0.01.1, associated with LAmSTeX. My hope was to find a command of this kind in the regular LaTeX installation.

Testing \nopagebreak[4] just now, it seems to me that it prevents both page breaks and column breaks. So I think the question is answered.

Thanks for your time.