On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Joshua Ellis wrote:
> While using \obeylines for some poetry there would sometimes be page breaks
> in the middle of stanzas, even if there was very stretchy space on either
> side. So I borrowed some code from needspace.sty, basically to tell TeX I'd
> be much happier w/ a ragged bottom than a break between lines:
>
> \def\needspace#1{%
> \begingroup
> \vskip#1\lineheight\penalty -100\vskip-#1\lineheight
> \vskip#1\lineheight\penalty 9999\vskip-#1\lineheight
> \endgroup}
>
> So if there is a stanza of four lines that *really* shouldn't be split
> across pages, it looks like this:
>
> \needspace{4}
> Line 1
> Line 2
> Line 3
> Line 4
>
> However, I suspect I'm not the first person to run into this. So my
> question is if there is a more ConTeXt-y way to do this? Or does ConTeXt
> already have something to do this?
\testpage[4] will check if there is space for 4 lines, and would
otherwise cause a pagebreak. I do not know how testpage compares with
needspace defined above.
Aditya
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