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The book that really did it for me was Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. He uses a lot of sections (like I do) and whomever typeset the book had no problem leaving blank space at the end of a page and starting a section on the next page.

Edit: Now I'm re-reading 1984. Same deal.

I've been paying attention to the typesetting of books I read, and it seems that \raggedbottom is the standard for professional work. Interesting.

I spoke too soon. I added a couple of pages to the document in question and the vbox warnings came back. So, instead of setting parskip to 2pt I wound up with parskip set to 1em plus 4pt. This leaves ugly gaps between paragraphs, but the compiler seems to like it. What's going on? It doesn't seem ...

OK, I figured it out. I found (in little tiny print somewhere) that increasing parskip can fix this problem. I increased parskip to 2pt and now everything is good.
Things like this need to be made more obvious so newbies don't clog up the message board with simple questions.

I've been using LaTeX for a while now, and I really like it. However, I've encountered a problem: when I increase the font size to 12pt I get all sorts of errors, mostly hbox and vbox ones.Is there an easy way to fix this? If LaTeX can't do something as simple as change the font size without ...