[Tex/LaTex] Huge empty space

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I'm a beginner at using LaTeX and I keep getting weird behaviours. For example, on the image below, I get so much empty space. Why is that ? How can I remove it ?

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Please in future post code that we can copy (preferably a complete document) rather than a screenshot of code, however..

You are using \FloatBarrier so the float can not float further forward past the next section title, the image is clipped but I suspect that you already have top floats on that page up to the number allowed by your document class so the float can not go at the top. By default h floats are not allowed, which leaves b bottom float as the only possibility to be tried before p which would cause an extra page to be issued with just the float.

probably in this case using \begin{figure}[!htp] will make things look better

! says to ignore numeric constraints (so it will probably go in the top area)

htp allow here, top and page floats and disallow b bottom.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to remove the huge space in the Bibliography title

The book document class uses the \chapter* command to generate the bibliography heading. Internally this uses the command \@makeschapterhead, which is defined as follows:

\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%                                                                                              
  \vspace*{50\p@}%                                                                                                      
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
    \normalfont
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak                                                                                     
    \vskip 40\p@                                                                                                        
  }}

Here, \p@ means pt, so you can see there is a 50pt vertical space before the heading. You can use the etoolbox package to remove the space.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\begin{document}
\chapter{AAA}
abc

\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}{\vspace*{50\p@}}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{thebibliography}{X}
\bibitem def
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

Note that this will affect all subsequent instances of \chapter*.

Incidentally, I would recommend using bibtex or biber to construct your bibliography. Doing it manually is very inefficient, and usually leads to formatting errors.

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