Document Classes ⇒ Vertical alignment of a4pages

[smal1]

Hi..

As a last resort, after reading an endless number of LaTeX guides, i must turn to a helping hand. I am current conducting a report, in relations to my study, and using the following documentclass:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,english,openright,twoside]{report}

My problem is, the output has some sort of vertical alignment within chapters, meaning that if a chapter takes up more than one page, the full pages gets vertical aligned. This means that, if a figure is inseted in the specific chapter, the spacing between sections, \\, paragraphs and such are various. I am having a hard time preventing this, as I se it, my only solution is to make the documentclass a oneside, which would be a shame IMO.

But if anyone knows how to curcumvent this, sharing is welcome and well-seen

/Smal

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Smal,

we had a similar question today. Here I would also suggest to try \raggedbottom.

I want to explain my suggestion. Here is some code of the report class you are using:

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\if@twoside
\else
  \raggedbottom
\fi
\if@twocolumn
  \twocolumn
  \sloppy
  \flushbottom
\else
  \onecolumn
\fi

As you can see if the oneside option is set then \raggedbottom is used. Else it should be \flushbottom and extra vertical space is added to fill the page.
You can test what is set in the document by \show and a look into the logfile.

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\show\@textbottom

gives the output \@textbottom=\relax when twoside, else it gives \@textbottom=macro: ->\vskip \z@ \@plus .0001fil.
\raggedbottom and \flushbottom are defined this way:

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\def\raggedbottom{%
  \def\@textbottom{\vskip \z@ \@plus.0001fil}\let\@texttop\relax}
\def\flushbottom{%
  \let\@textbottom\relax \let\@texttop\relax}

Stefan

[smal1]

Perfect Stefan, it worked like a charm. It is though quite annoying that it actually was that easy Yesterday I would have considered my self as LaTeX capable, but I must admit that today I'm having my doubts

But thank you for the quick help, 15 hours before the projects due time

sincerly...