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From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
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Subject: Re: The whole (sub)section on a single page
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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> It doesn't need to automatically determine the subsection boundaries
> automatically (although this would be great), so I can write something
> like this:
> 
> \startmaterialforonepage
> \subsection{split only if too long for one page}
> \dorecurse{10}{whatever comes here \dots }
> \stopmaterialforonepage

Do you want something like this?

   \long\def\startmaterialforonepage#1\stopmaterialforonepage%
     {\setbox0\vbox{#1}\ifdim\ht0<\textheight \page\fi #1}

Taco