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15 Forcing and Preventing Breaks
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Line and page breaks can sometimes occur in the 'wrong' place in one or
another form of output.  It's up to you to ensure that text looks right
in all the output formats.

  For example, in a printed manual, page breaks may occur awkwardly in
the middle of an example; to prevent this, you can hold text together
using a grouping command that keeps the text from being split across two
pages.  Conversely, you may want to force a page break where none would
occur normally.

  You can use the break, break prevention, or pagination commands to fix
problematic line and page breaks.

Break Commands

Summary of break-related commands.

Line Breaks

Forcing line breaks.

@- @hyphenation

Helping TeX with hyphenation points.

@allowcodebreaks

Controlling line breaks within @code text.

@w

Preventing unwanted line breaks in text.

@tie

Inserting an unbreakable but varying space.

@sp

Inserting blank lines.

@page

Forcing the start of a new page.

@group

Preventing unwanted page breaks.

@need

Another way to prevent unwanted page breaks.