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Making and Preventing Breaks

Usually, a Texinfo file is processed both by TeX and by one of the Info formatting commands. Line, paragraph, or page breaks sometimes occur in the `wrong' place in one or other form of output. You must ensure that text looks right both in the printed manual and in the Info file.

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. Fortunately, problems like these do not often arise. When they do, use the break, break prevention, or pagination commands.

• Break Commands: Cause and prevent splits.
• Line Breaks: How to force a single line to use two lines.
• - and hyphenation: How to tell TeX about hyphenation points.
• w: How to prevent unwanted line breaks.
• sp: How to insert blank lines.
• page: How to force the start of a new page.
• group: How to prevent unwanted page breaks.
• need: Another way to prevent unwanted page breaks.