Re: How to keeping Enumerate items together?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Steve Litt wrote:

In my book created with the Book document class, I have a four item bullet 
list in environment Itemize. It pagebreaks after the second item, and even 
more lame than that, the next page is consumed with a graphic float, so the 
reader has to skip 2 pages to see the other two items.

Perhaps something at 
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopagebrk will be of 
help.  I'm not sure there's a happy resolution (other than delaying the 
float by a page).  Keeping all four list items on the first page might 
cause a serious margin overrun, and moving all four to the next page 
might leave you with too much empty space.

Within my layout file, is there a simple way I can modify the Itemize 
environment so it tries hard not to break in the middle?

Be careful what you wish for.  This is liable to leave you with some 
large blocks of empty space at the ends of pages (assuming you can make 
it work).

I'd like to stay with the Book document class, as my base document class, if 
at all possible. My experience is that when you keep switching base document 
classes to gain individual features, for every problem you solve two new ones 
pop up. Kind of like my hair :-)

If two new hairs pop up where previously there were none, patent the 
formula!