Text Formatting ⇒ Grinding my teeth: Vertical space between paragraphs

[Montag]

Hello!
I am really grinding my teeth here because I can not figure out what is exactly what causes my "problem".

There are the following pieces to be found in two very different parts of my document:

example 1

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[...]übergeordneten System (z.B. Leitrechner).

Die zuvor [...]

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Example #1.

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example 2

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[...]
vereinfachte Beschreibung der Kinematik.

Somit kann auf eine Symbolik [...]

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Example #2.

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So my question is:
What could cause the extra vertical space?
Is it automatically generated due to LaTeX's computations? I've never ran into this issue before, I always had it like it looks in the first picture I posted. I guess then it must be LaTeX's own doing or a command in between I must have missed. But then again, later on in the document, some paragrphings look just like the first example.

How can I avoid the differenty vertical spacings?
I have to admit, it's not my real own file, I had to convert from Word to LaTeX, whcih is fine, but it includes a lot of graphics and tables so it is not the ideal document for LaTeX. Furthermore, they have to be hard-coded and can't be included via float-environments.

[frabjous]

Probably the rubber space between paragraphs. It should report a bad vbox when the stretch gets that large, which is its way of telling you that it needs to resort to something ugly to get all pages of roughly the same height.

You can unrubberize the space with something like:

\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}

or tell it that pages don't have to be the same height:

\raggedbottom

If these aren't acceptable, it might require more fancy tricks.