General ⇒ Unwanted space between section and tabular environments

[ckleiner]

Hi there

I am creating a diary with a section for each month. Within such a section, I have 1-20 separate tabular environments, each with 2 columns (left picture, text right). Now when I run LaTeX, it creates a page break after the last tabular environment fitting onto a page. However - after a section, it places all those environments at the bottom of the page, creating a big space between the section and the first tabular environment (see the attached picture on the left). What I would like to have instead is the layout shown on the attached picture on the right: the empty space on the page is after the last environment which fits onto the page.

I am sure it's a 1-liner to solve the issue - however: so far I wasn't able to figure out a solution.

Very happy for any support. What I - obviously - don't want to do is to insert manual page breaks....

-- Christoph

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[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Christoph,

welcome to the forum!

Usually we need the problem code to tell what's the cause of an issue. Perhaps a wild guess at the moment: your page height may be balanced, so LaTeX inserts white space to fill the page.

Try \raggedbottom in the preamble to switch of the height justification.

Stefan

[ckleiner]

Hi Stefan

Perfect; that solved my problem!

Thanks a lot!

-- Christoph