\bigbreak & \medbreak & \smallbreak (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 19.12 `\bigbreak` & `\medbreak` & `\smallbreak`

Synopsis, one of:

    \bigbreak
    \medbreak
    \smallbreak

Produce a vertical space that is big or medium-sized or small, and suggest to LaTeX that this is a good place to break the page. (The associated penalties are -200, -100, and -50.)

See \bigskip & \medskip & \smallskip, for more. These commands produce the same vertical space but differ in that they also remove a preceding vertical space if it is less than what they would insert (as with `\addvspace`). In addition, they terminate a paragraph where they are used: this example

    abc\bigbreak def ghi

    jkl mno pqr

will output three paragraphs, the first ending in ‘`abc`’ and the second starting, after an extra vertical space and a paragraph indent, with ‘`def`’.

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