James Mansion wrote:
Hi,
I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've
been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book.
The style tends to be:
* with a point
* or two
In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and
widow and orphan control and the
layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets
put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle
with inter-paragraph spacing for these too)
I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page
between the elements though.
Is there a straightforward way to prevent this?
No Good Can Come Of This. Inevitably, you'll end up with funky vertical
spacing. That said, it's a LaTeX issue (not a LyX issue), and LaTeX
provides an assortment of ways to screw with page breaking. Since AFAIK
LaTeX assumes that breaking a page between items in a list is always
fair, the simplest solution might be to put your bullet list inside a
parbox (Insert -> Box, then right click the box handle and change from
the default minipage to parbox). You could even bind that to a key
combination, I think (not sure if there's an LFUN for switching to a
parbox) or hack the stdlists.inc file in the layout directory to include
a new boxed-bullet-list environment (wrapping the list in a parbox in
the preamble stuff).
/Paul
