Text Formatting ⇒ vertical \break

[Laurentius]

Is there a vertical version of \break that spreads the lines evenly all over the page, even if they are too few to fill it?

\pagebreak seems to involve a \vfil

[cgnieder]

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. In order to allow the lines to evenly spread you'd need to set a stretchable parskip and/or baselineskip. Else the only stretching of space will take place where there is stretchable vertical space.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

% stretchable parskip:
\begingroup
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt plus 1fil}
\lipsum[1-2]\newpage
\lipsum[1-2]\pagebreak
\lipsum[1-2]\clearpage
\lipsum[1-2]
\endgroup

\newpage

% stretchable baselineskip:
\begingroup
\setlength{\baselineskip}{\the\baselineskip plus 1fil}
\lipsum[1-2]\newpage
\lipsum[1-2]\pagebreak
\lipsum[1-2]\clearpage
\lipsum[1-2]
\endgroup

\end{document}

Regards