Page Layout ⇒ Reducing width of spaces between paragraphs

[AleCes]

OK, I don't want to seem a flooder, but it's the same (draft of) a book of mine that keeps on giving me lots of troubles.
When you compile it you'll notice that at page 6 the space between paragraphs is significantly wider than the standard. I know there is a way to increase it, but I'd rather be interested in reducing it, because, typographically speaking, it's really ugly!

[meho_r]

Well, that is default behaviour, to stretch space on some places (before/after headings, between paragraphs, in lists etc. where it's possible) to fit the page vertically, i.e., to get bottom lines even on all pages and get "squared" design. You can easily remedy this by placing in the preamble the following command:

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\raggedbottom

But, in this case, expect, well, ragged bottoms on pages Since you'll probably have to manually sort problems with ragged bottoms, it is very likely that you'll want to add/subtract a line of text on a page from time to time, and for that the following command can be useful too:

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\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}

Use this command on pages for which you want text height to be one line larger than normal. You may use negative values for the opposite (e.g. \enlargethispage{-2\baselineskip}).

Typographically speaking, it is desirable to have squared pages, but without widows (orphans may be tolerated). To achieve this, there is no other way but to do manual corrections. This means rewording the text, or creating manual breaks and/or enlarging page spreads with the above command. The method I personally use (in case rewording isn't possible) is to create custom line breaks on some places where it is possible.

[AleCes]

Hy meho_r, that's the second time you get me out of trouble! Thank you!
By looking carefully at the output box, I noticed it had signaled the "underfullness" of the page in question plus the next one:

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Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [6]
Underfull \vbox (badness 2671) has occurred while \output is active [7]

Anyhow, the \raggedbottom solution will do for me, without adding lines which would lead to the page number on the bottom being overwritten.
Even though now page 6 and 7 have ragged bottoms (page 7 almost imperceptibly), I don't think this is typographically awful, actually nicer than the output I got before!

P.S.
In this case I can't really reword it because I'm expected to typeset the original text!