<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.7, 23 September 2019),
a documentation system that can produce both online information and a
printed manual from a single source using semantic markup.
Copyright (C) 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2001, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
"GNU Free Documentation License". -->
<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.7, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>@need (GNU Texinfo 6.7)</title>
<meta name="description" content="@need (GNU Texinfo 6.7)">
<meta name="keywords" content="@need (GNU Texinfo 6.7)">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="texi2any">
<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top">
<link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index">
<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
<link href="Breaks.html" rel="up" title="Breaks">
<link href="Definition-Commands.html" rel="next" title="Definition Commands">
<link href="_0040group.html" rel="prev" title="@group">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none}
blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em}
div.display {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.example {margin-left: 3.2em}
div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em}
kbd {font-style: oblique}
pre.display {font-family: inherit}
pre.format {font-family: inherit}
pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif}
pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif}
span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap}
span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal}
span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal}
ul.no-bullet {list-style: none}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang="en">
<span id="g_t_0040need"></span><div class="header">
<p>
Previous: <a href="_0040group.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@group</code></a>, Up: <a href="Breaks.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Breaks</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
</div>
<hr>
<span id="g_t_0040need-mils_003a-Prevent-Page-Breaks"></span><h3 class="section">13.10 <code>@need <var>mils</var></code>: Prevent Page Breaks</h3>
<span id="need"></span><span id="index-need"></span>
<span id="index-Need-space-at-page-bottom"></span>
<span id="index-Mils_002c-argument-to-_0040need"></span>
<p>A line containing only <code>@need <var>n</var></code> starts a new page in a
printed manual if fewer than <var>n</var> mils (thousandths of an inch)
remain on the current page. Do not use braces around the argument
<var>n</var>. The <code>@need</code> command has no effect on other output
formats since they are not paginated.
</p>
<p>This paragraph is preceded by a <code>@need</code> command that tells
TeX to start a new page if fewer than 800 mils (eight-tenths
inch) remain on the page. It looks like this:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">@need 800
This paragraph is preceded by …
</pre></div>
<span id="index-Orphans_002c-preventing"></span>
<p>The <code>@need</code> command is useful for preventing orphans: single
lines at the bottoms of printed pages.
</p>
</body>
</html>