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My point is not to solve that particular document. I would like to have a way to diagnostic why latex took thoses decisions. is it possible?

If I understand your problem correctly, you need to decrease the space between the paragraphs? To do so, use the command:
\addtolength{\parskip}{the_legth_you_want_to_add_here_with_unit}

If you add a negative value, it will decrease the space. Be careful with that because it will problably change ...

no, it's all one document

Hi all
I have some page breaks that don't make sense to me. One one page, there's only two lines at the top. The rest of the page is empty and on the next page, the beginning of a new section with \section.

I tried the layout commands like \nopagebreak[4] and it didn't change anything.

So now I am ...

what about the lscape package? Use the "landscape" environment. I don't know if the caption willl rotate with the table, but I belive so.

try this, this from the official website
http://www.toolscenter.org/downloads.html

If you just want to test latex, you can use the class "article"

This document should help:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... lineno.pdf

maybe you can even add it in the definition of minipage...

Try this: don't use the option "flushmargin". When in the minipage, use this command:
\setlength{\fotnotemargin}{0pt}

I didn't try it...