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