Hi John,
The philosophers can think, but have poor writing habits and style IMHO!
Yet, that is a tradition. ;-))
regards
Keith.
Am 04.12.2011 um 13:40 schrieb John Was:
> Hello
>
> I use plain XeTeX, and thanks to scholars of ancient philosophy who like to
> have huge footnotes (sometimes including tabular matter or extensive workings
> in formal logic) I do sometimes have to specify that certain groups of lines
> cannot split between pages. Within tabular I just have \noalign{\nobreak}
> between the lines of the table that aren't to be split, and if a whole table
> was to be regarded as non-splittable I suppose I would put it all within
> vertical box: \vbox{TABLE IN HERE}.
>
> Wordy commands can always be reduced for quickness in typing, for example:
>
> \def\nbr{\noalign{\nobreak}} would let you type \nbr between tabular lines
> that aren't to be split.
>
> Do TeX primitives like that not work in LaTeX?
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> John
>
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