LyX ⇒ Bottom margin control

[xbdr86]

Hi!!

I'm a newborn in LaTeX (also in LyX), I'm currently learning a lot and I have solved most of my problems but I have a big issue with the bottom margins. In certain pages it is completely spoilt no matter what codes I type for controlling it...

Can anyone help me?? Thanks in advance!!!

[kaiserkarl13]

The table is the issue here---TeX can't figure out how to put it on the same page and have it in-line, so it punts.

I'm guessing you checked the "here definitely" or "here if possible" box and probably no others on the table settings, which means use \begin{table}[X] in LaTeX, where X is H (here definitely) or h (here if possible). Especially in the [H] case, LaTeX is given no other choice but to put the table wherever it is, with no option to move it to the next page, the top of this page, etc., so it's saying, "Well, it's going to look bad if I put it here, but since you didn't give me another choice, it's going to look just as bad [to me] either way. I'll just write it out now."

There are three ways around this:
(1) Give the float more flexibility in placement (I usually use [tbp] or possibly [htbp] for table placement)
(2) Edit the paragraph above the table so the table isn't place near a page break
(3) Force a page break somewhere else in the document so the table isn't near a page break.