[texhax] \par\nobreak vs. \vskip...\nobreak

[Rodolfo Medina]

Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi all TeXperts.
>>
>> If, in a plain TeX document, I put `\par\nobreak', I'm quite sure that no
>> page break will occur at that place.  Instead, if I do
>> i.e. `\smallskip\nobreak', TeX will break the page just there.  As an
>> example, I'm attaching a file to be processed with simply `tex file'...  In
>> it there's a `\smallskip\nobreak' that breaks the page.  Replacing it with
>> \par\nobreak prevents the break...  How can I tell TeX to apply a certain
>> \vskip - different from \parskip - without breaking the page there...?
> No time to experiment, but I would try \nobreak \smallskip \nobreak ...


Tried...  Not working...  Thanks.

Rodolfo