General ⇒ Keep lines together in \verse

[meho_r]

Let say that we have this case:

\begin{verse}\itshape
Line 1\\
Line 2.

Line 3\\
Line4.

Line 5\\
Line 6.
\end{verse}

The question is: how to prevent breaks at the end of page after Line 1, 3 or 5? Is there a command "keep lines together", "keep with next" or something similar?

[localghost]

My first idea is to put the verse environment into a minipage environment.

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\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
  \begin{verse}
    …
  \end{verse}
\end{minipage}

Best regards
Thorsten

[balf]

Try \nopagebreak; or \enlargethispage{n\baselineskip}?

B.A.

[meho_r]

Thanks for replies, guys:) Minipage could be used, but I don't mind if there are breaks in \verse environment, just not in verses where there are only two lines. Minipage keeps together all lines and that is not what I need.

No, \nopagebreak doesn't work at this.

\enlargethispage works but I don't like using it, really. If I reorganize text, add something or change the font and \verse is moved, this added line still remains when not needed.

Is it possible that there is no command that keeps lines together?

[Juanjo]

The \\ command has an starred version which inhibits page breaks. So try \\* instead of \\.

[balf]

Try
\widowpenalty=10000
\clubpenalty=10000
\raggedbottom
in your preamble; it suppresses widows and orphans.

B.A.

[meho_r]

Well, problem solved Command \\* did the trick. Thank you, Juanjo, and thank you all

By the way, I do use \widowpenalty10000 and \clubpenalty10000, but it doesn't work in this case. For other cases it works just fine.