[texhax] How to prevent page break in description environment item

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Sat Oct 31 19:48:08 CET 2015


Hi,

Put \newpage{} at the end of the prior description item.

\begin{description}
   \item[first item] \hfill \\
     Description of first item \newpage{}
   \item[second item] \hfill \\
     Description of second item
\end{description}

HIH
Alan

On 1/11/15 2:26 am, Moritz Sichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this code:
>
> \begin{description}
>    \item[first item] \hfill \\
>      Description of first item
>    \item[second item] \hfill \\
>      Description of second item
> \end{description}
>
>
> And it generates something like this:
>
> First Item
>    Description of first Item
> Second Item
> -------- PAGE BREAK ----------
>    Description of second item
>
>
> How can I prevent the page break between the title of an item and its
> description?
>
> I tried adding \nopagebreak after \descriptionlabel like this:
>
> \let\orig at descriptionlabel\descriptionlabel
> \renewcommand*{\descriptionlabel}[1]{\orig at descriptionlabel{#1}\nopagebreak}
>
> But that didn't change anything. Adding \nopagebreak around the second
> item in the code also didn't prevent the break.
>
>
>
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