General ⇒ unwanted white space, help needed, dissertation deadline soo

[foxhunt99]

Hi, I have finished my defense, only thing left for me is to turn in the dissertation. But there are large white space in my dissertation, usually before a chapter or section. Sometimes they are as big 1.5 pages. I don't know how to delete those. I noticed I could type more things in the space and fill it up that way, but it would be stupid.

I am using miktex 2.7, and compiling use PDFtex.

What could possibly cause the white space?

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\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{uscthesis}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{boxedminipage}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{pslatex}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{algorithmic}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\newcommand{\algorithmicfunction}{\textbf{function}\ }
\newcommand{\algorithmicfunctionend}{\textbf{end function}\ }

\copyrightyear{2009}
\pagestyle{plain}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{arabic}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

What could possibly cause the white space?

perhaps LaTeX inserts the white space in order to fill the page. You could try raggedbottom, but it's possible that not all pages are filled completely to the lower margin.

Stefan

[foxhunt99]

Trie \raggedbottom, but it is not working. I tried switch \chapter to \section, then the white space disappears. But thats not what I wanted, it is driving me crazy.

[localghost]

Supplement the option list for the document class by adding the openany option.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten