[PATCH] Support \\*

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 08:17:35PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>My specific use case for this is for short stanzas in a verse
> >>environment: \\* will prevent a page break in the middle of a stanza.
> >>
> >>For lack of a better term I've called this "Starred line break" though
> >>I'm sure it can be renamed to something more appropriate.
> >
> >Not sure either, but normal user won't get idea what is it for with
> >this naming. Could not find anything better than "Line break without page break".
> 
> Or maybe 'Line break (same page)'

Looks better.

> >Is the meaning of \\* stable enough across different environments?
> 
> I am not sure what you mean here, Pavel.

\\ is redefined in many LaTeX environments, I was wondering what is the
situation with \\*. I.e. Whether it is safe enough to rename '\\*' to 
'line break without pagebreak'.

> I am not very excited by the screen representation, as color coding is
> considered a bad thing, but I do not have a better idea right now.

We could paint new glyph, e.g. like the attached.
(Example of such plotting is also in the commit I refered in my earlier email.)

Pavel
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