When you use twoside
you get flushbuttom
as standard. Try using the command \raggedbottom
in your preamble.
Also, I suggest using the package footmisc
with the option bottom
if you have footnotes in your document. Put the line
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
in you preamble and the footnotes lines up at the bottom of the page.
Here's my version:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mdframed,lipsum}
\parindent=0pt
\newmdenv[leftmargin=\dimexpr-0.5em-3pt, innerleftmargin=0.5em,
rightmargin=\dimexpr-0.5em-3pt, innerrightmargin=0.5em,
linewidth=3pt,linecolor=red, topline=false, bottomline=false,
innertopmargin=0pt,innerbottommargin=0pt,skipbelow=0pt,skipabove=0pt,
]{notex}
\newenvironment{note}
{\par\vskip\dimexpr\dp\strutbox-\prevdepth\relax\notex\strut\ignorespaces}
{\par\xdef\notetpd{\the\prevdepth}\endnotex\vskip-\notetpd\relax}
\begin{document}
\leavevmode\llap{\smash{\vrule depth7\baselineskip height0pt\hskip1em}}%
\lipsum*[2]
\begin{note}
\lipsum[2]
\end{note}
\leavevmode\llap{\smash{\vrule height\baselineskip\hskip1em}}%
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
The black rules are just to show that the alignment is correct (they can't be too near the text because mdframed
applies a white background).
A magnified view of the top line
And one of the bottom line
At the start we ensure to skip by the glue TeX would insert and we add a strut to the first line in the note
environment, so to have the correct distance between baselines. At the end we do similarly, keeping into account the depth of the last line in the note
environment.
Brief explanation
mdframed
sets its chunks in a \vbox
which is inserted in the main vertical list; this usually upsets the interline spacing, as a \vbox
has its reference point at the baseline of the last box inside it. The package tries to do clever things not to add unwanted spaces, but in this case it's not sufficient.
So we need to emulate TeX's normal behavior. The distance from one baseline and the next is the sum of \dp\strutbox
and \ht\strutbox
; we can insert a strut in the first line of note
which makes it the correct height; but adding \dp\strutbox
vertical space will usually be too much, because the last line before note
may have descenders. So we end the paragraph so that \prevdepth
(an internal parameter) contains the depth of the last contributed box (precisely the last line). So we can add
\vskip\dp\strutbox-\prevdepth
and all is good. Something similar we have to do at the end. We end the paragraph and define \notetpd
to contain the value of \prevdepth
, so we can remove a vertical space with that amount, putting everything back in synch.
Best Answer
We used
\plparsep=0.2in
and negative value in\plitemsep
:\plitemsep=-0.2in
. For now this is our result.