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\raggedbottom conflicts with other commands

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  1. LockeShocke
    Member

    (EDIT: Sorry, I should have posted this in the formatting forum. If an admin can move it that would be great.)

    Hi all. I had had some problems with LaTeX adjusting spacing between section headings, paragraphs, etc., to try to fill out the extra whitespace in a page. I fell in love with \raggedbottom when I discovered it recently, but I've noticed that it doesn't always work. (I can comment it out, for example, and see no change.)

    I've discovered that \raggedbottom conflicts with \parskip and, presumably, other attributes that set manual spacing between page elements. But it also seems to fail to work sometimes when I don't have any of those options set.

    So, two questions: (1) Is there somewhere I can find a specification of what \raggedbottom conflicts or competes with? I've had no luck on Google with this. And: (2) Is there a way to set the penalty for disobeying \raggedbottom? I'd love if I could just set something to 10,000 and be assured that LaTeX would always heed my \raggedbottom request.

    Thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    \raggedbottom is just a switch that turns vertical justification off; \flushbottom turns it back on. Most likely you're using certain commands that call \flushbottom in their definition. It's hard to tell without a minimal example of the kind of problem you're having.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. LockeShocke
    Member

    Thanks for the note. Is there any way I could open one of the auxiliary or log files to see where \flushbottom is being called? Or will it just have to be trial and error?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. Kevin Klement
    Key Master

    Not really. The easiest way would be to follow these instructions for creating a minimal working example exhibiting the problem, and then post it here, and then I'm betting we can figure it out together. (Use packages like lipsum or blindtext to fill in sample text.)

    Posted 1 year ago #

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