[Tex/LaTex] twoside introduces incorrect linespacing at end of section

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I have:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}

with no special customisation.

In one page, at the end of a section, I have a big figure with two paragraphs of text below it, and these two paragraphs are not enough to fill up the rest of the page.

When I use the \documentclass as above I get some extra white space at the end of the page, which is fine: the vertical spacing from the figure caption and between the two paragraphs is standard and correct.

But if I switch to:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside]{report}

I get extra blank space between the figure caption and the 1st paragraph and also between the 1st and 2nd paragraph.

I want to use twoside to set the headings with fancyhdr. How can I get rid of these ugly white spaces?

Best Answer

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.

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