Sue Kientz wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to prevent the text in Book document class from bottom
justifying the text height? What I'm seeing is, if there's a large
block (e.g., figure) that needs to follow paragraphs or an enumerated
list, and there's not enough space on the page, instead of leaving
white space on the bottom of the page, it spaces out the enumerated
list or paragraphs on that previous page, so that some text will show
at the bottom of that page. Looks like it's bottom justifying the page
text.
Books are supposed to be this way, because you see two pages at a time
when a book is open. Having them end at different height tends to
look stupid, so the text is stretched. Having lots of
stretchable/compressable
spacing (headings, lists, paragraph breaks) makes the effects smaller.
It can look bad if you only have a little stretchable space that gets
stretched
a lot.
There is an override, I think it is a latex command like \raggedbottom
which you put in a ERT box.
Read a latex tutorial to find out more.
Helge Hafting
