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I intend to combine the itemize environment with the minipage environment to prevent paragraphs from appearing on separate pages, but as a result the alignment of the bullet and the text changes from


to


To clarify, I'm looking for a way to combine minipage and itemize/enumerate like the code below to get the same spacing between the bullet and text as in the first example.

documentclass{article}

begin{document}

begin{itemize}

 item

  begin{minipage}{textwidth}

    Lorem\

    Ipsum

  end{minipage}

end{itemize}

end{document}

EDIT:
The option [t] for minipage has been suggested, and generally works, but is not fully compatible with other environments. When pairing it with the array environment as follows, the bullet resets to a centered position.

documentclass{article}

begin{document}

begin{itemize}

 item

  begin{minipage}[t]{textwidth}

    $begin{array}{rcl}

    x &=& y\

    y &=& x\

    2x &neq& 5y

    end{array}$

  end{minipage}

end{itemize}

end{document}  

Using option [t] for minipage does the trick:

documentclass{article}

usepackage[showframe]{geometry}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{enumerate}

begin{document}

begin{itemize}

item

  begin{minipage}[t]{linewidth} % Thanks to Bernard

    lipsum[1]



    lipsum[2]

  end{minipage}

end{itemize}

lipsum[3]

end{document}

Note: The usepackage[showframe]{geometry} is only for showing margin, you can delete it in actual document.

Edit:

As for the conflict:

The reason for the conflicts is that the whole array environment is considered to be an element, like a letter in the line, which means the array environment will be "centerized" with the first line.

A quick and tricky way to solve this:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{listings}

begin{document}

begin{itemize}

 item

  begin{minipage}[t]{linewidth}

    raisebox{-baselineskip}{$begin{array}{rcl}

    x &=& y\

    y &=& x\

    2x &neq& 5y

    end{array}$}

  end{minipage}

end{itemize}

end{document} 

A standard solution for the array: We use [t] once again (thanks to koleygr):

documentclass{article}

usepackage{listings}

begin{document}

begin{itemize}

 item

  begin{minipage}[t]{linewidth}

    $begin{array}[t]{rcl}

    x &=& y\

    y &=& x\

    2x &neq& 5y

    end{array}$

  end{minipage}

end{itemize}

end{document} 

What I would do is this:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

newsavebox{mybottombox} % Box to save the text of the command 

newlength{mybottomlength} % The length of our text inside the command

newlength{availafter} % The available length left on the page after placing our text





% Optional argument is the minimum length after the nobottom text for not pagebreak. Change it to your needs

newcommand{mnobreak}[2][0pt]{savebox{mybottombox}{vbox{#2}}setlength{mybottomlength}{htmybottombox}%

setlength{availafter}{dimexprtextheight-mybottomlength-pagetotalrelax}ifdimavailafter<#1%

pagebreaknoindentusebox{mybottombox}%

else%

noindentusebox{mybottombox}%

fi%

}%



begin{document}

lipsum[1-4]



To clarify, I'm looking for a way to combine minipage and itemize/enumerate like the code below to get the same spacing between the bullet and text as in the first example. To clarify, I'm looking for a way to combine minipage and itemize/enumerate like the code below to get the same spacing between the bullet and text as in the first example.



begin{itemize}

 item mnobreak{Lorem\Lipsum\Lorem\Lipsum\Lorem}

end{itemize}

end{document}

Remove the last Lorem to see that the item would break with it.

Source: my old answer here

Output: