Orphan control for itemized and enumerated lists 

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
>The \widowclubpenalty and \clubpenalty tricks are working
>wonderfully for protecting paragraphs against orphans and widows,
>but they don't do anything for my itemized and enumerated lists,
>which have an alarming tendency to leave one single-line item
>on a page, isolated from the rest of the list.
>Is there a way to control this, or am I being too fussy?

No, one can never be too fussy 'bout type, typography and the printed word.

Put it in a \vbox?

Or would it be a \hbox…..

I always get confused by the two :( but as my father always says, “Fifty-fifty's good odds.”

William Adams