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I am working with environments to be able to easily format the content of a document.

Now I want to define a rule so that the content from the ccetheme environment appears on the same page as the content from the next environment: it can be ccebody or ccesection

I have seen that it can be done with needspace or minipage, but I can't do it.

This is my minimal example:

\documentclass[ebook,11pt,twoside,openright,showtrims]{memoir}
\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\settrimmedsize{9in}{6in}{*}
\setbinding{0.5in}
\setlrmarginsandblock{0.5in}{0.4in}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{0.5in}{0.5in}{*}
\setheadfoot{12.07pt}{\footskip}
\checkandfixthelayout
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\headerfont{Libertinus Sans}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{spanish}
\usepackage{csquotes} 
\usepackage{xcolor}  
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{needspace}  
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\usepackage[showframe, pass]{geometry}
\newcommand{\txtred}{\textcolor{red}}
\newcommand\n[1]{\txtred{\textbf{#1}}}

%--------------------------------------------------------------------- CCE styles
\newenvironment{ccetheme}[1]{%
    % \begin{cr}{#1}
    \nopagebreak
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space above
    \centering% Alignment
    \bfseries% Weight
    \color{red}% Colour
    {\large #1\par}% Change to \LARGE or \Huge
    \ignorespaces
}
{% \end{cr}
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space below
    %\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
    
    %\end{minipage}  
}

%Títulos en negrita del propio CCE
\newenvironment{ccesection}{%
    % \begin{cr}{#1}
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space above
    \bfseries% Weight
    \ignorespaces
}
{% \end{cr}
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space below
}

\newenvironment{ccebody}{%
    \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth} 
        %\textit{redtext}\
        %\fontfamily{gentium}\selectfont            
    \end{minipage}  
}%
{% \end{cr}
    %\nopagebreak
    %\par% Start a new paragraph
    %\addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space below
}

\newenvironment{ccecite}{%
    % \begin{cr}{#1}
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space above
    \alterfont% Font
    \ignorespaces
    \leftskip1cm\relax
    \rightskip1cm\relax
}
{% \end{cr}
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space below
}

\begin{document}
    \section{Temas}
    \begin{ccetheme}{La Alianza con Noé} {CEC 56-58, 71}\end{ccetheme}
    
    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{56} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   

    \begin{ccetheme}{Test} {CEC NNNN}\end{ccetheme}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{57} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{58} \lipsum[5] 
    \end{ccebody}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{59} \lipsum[6-8] 
    \end{ccebody}

    \begin{ccetheme}{Test} {CEC MMMM}\end{ccetheme}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \begin{ccesection}This is title on bold\end{ccesection}
        \n{59} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   
    
    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{60} \lipsum[5] 
    \end{ccebody}
    
\end{document}  

As you can see in the images below, in this particular case there is an unpleasant cut between the ccetheme environment and the ccebody environment.

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Also in this case, where I use the ccesection environment I would like the content of ccetheme along with the following to go to the next page:

enter image description here

I want to know if there is any way to force ccetheme content to always appear on the same page as the next paragraph.

As you can see, to achieve this I am putting \nopagebreak in ccetheme environment and trying to implement minipage in ccebody, but it doesn't work.

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  • There are three ways to keep certain things together. The first is to put both inside an unbreakable box, like a minipage. The second is to compute how much space is needed and use the needspace package. The third is to max out the penalty for page breaking between the two (see \@afterheading). Feb 3, 2021 at 22:06
  • @JohnKormylo But how could I do it from the environments? It is a very long document and I would like to do this automatically. Is that possible?
    – A. Cedano
    Feb 3, 2021 at 22:09
  • 2
    you haven't provided any usable test code so hard to answer but adding \nopagebreak after the \par in ccetheme probably does something Feb 3, 2021 at 22:15
  • @DavidCarlisle Thank you. Doing that works best. I think if I manage to make the ccebody paragraphs stick together on the same page it would work as I hope. Is there a way to indicate that in the ccebody environment? Sorry for not giving a complete example, the text is too long.
    – A. Cedano
    Feb 3, 2021 at 22:29
  • you can use packages like lipsum to generate dummy paragraphs while keeping the example short. if your ccebody never needs to break over a page (so is never longer than a page for example) you can use a minipage in its definition. a minipage never breaks Feb 3, 2021 at 22:31

1 Answer 1

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This still has a few warnings and spacing could be tweaked but something like this I think is closer to what you want

also use commands when there is fixed number of braced arguments and environments when you need to surround larger chunks of text.

enter image description here

\documentclass[ebook,11pt,twoside,openright,showtrims]{memoir}
\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\settrimmedsize{9in}{6in}{*}
\setbinding{0.5in}
\setlrmarginsandblock{0.5in}{0.4in}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{0.5in}{0.5in}{*}
\setheadfoot{12.07pt}{\footskip}
\checkandfixthelayout
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\headerfont{Libertinus Sans}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{spanish}
\usepackage{csquotes} 
\usepackage{xcolor}  
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{needspace}  
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\usepackage[showframe, pass]{geometry}
\newcommand{\txtred}{\textcolor{red}}
\newcommand\n[1]{\txtred{\textbf{#1}}}

%--------------------------------------------------------------------- CCE styles
\newcommand{\ccetheme}[2]{%
\def\cceA{#1}%
\def\cceB{#2}%
}
%Títulos en negrita del propio CCE
\newcommand{\ccesection}[1]{%
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \addvspace{\baselineskip}% Space above
    \noindent\textbf{#1}%
    \par
}


\newenvironment{ccebody}{%
    \par% Start a new paragraph
    \noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}%
    \setlength\parindent{15pt}%
    \ifx\cceA\relax\else
    \begin{center}
    \bfseries% Weight
    \color{red}% Colour
    \large \cceA\\\cceB
    \end{center}%
    \fi
    \global\let\cceA\relax
    \par
}%
{\end{minipage}%
\par}

\newenvironment{ccecite}{%
    % \begin{cr}{#1}
    \quote
    \alterfont% Font
}
{\endquote
}
\raggedbottom
\begin{document}
    \section{Temas}
    \ccetheme{La Alianza con Noé} {CEC 56-58, 71}
    
    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{56} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   

    \ccetheme{Test} {CEC NNNN}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{57} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{58} \lipsum[5] 
    \end{ccebody}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{59} \lipsum[6-8] 
    \end{ccebody}

    \ccetheme{Test} {CEC MMMM}

    \begin{ccebody}
        \ccesection{This is title on bold}
        \n{59} \lipsum[1-3] 
    \end{ccebody}   
    
    \begin{ccebody}
        \n{60} \lipsum[5] 
    \end{ccebody}
    
\end{document}  
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  • It seems to work as expected. Thank you.
    – A. Cedano
    Feb 4, 2021 at 0:05
  • With this code I have lost the indentation in the first line of each paragraph of ccebody, do you know how I could recover it?
    – A. Cedano
    Feb 4, 2021 at 0:50
  • stick \setlength\parindent{15pt} (or whatever) just after \begin{minipage} Feb 4, 2021 at 0:51
  • Addint this: \noindent\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}% \setlength\parindent{15pt} is working only after 2nd paragraph, not indenting the 1st paragraph.
    – A. Cedano
    Feb 4, 2021 at 0:58
  • @A.Cedano should work, I added a picture unless I missed something (I also stopped the heading indenting with \noindent) Feb 4, 2021 at 9:15

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