[Tex/LaTex] Uneven text distribution with two-column layout

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I am comfortable with creating basic LaTeX documents and making minor modifications to templates I can find online, but not much more. The Oxford Bioinformatics journal has an awesome template here that I am trying to modify for a school assignment.

The template uses a two-column layout, but if there is not enough text to fill the final page, it distributes the text evenly between the two columns. Is there a way I can modify this template so that the first column is filled before any text flows over to the second column? I've been able to make most of the layout modifications I need in the bioinfo.cls file, but I cannot figure this one out.

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The bioinfo class loads the flushend package which (according to the UK TeX FAQ in a "somewhat dangerous" way) balances the columns at the end of a two-column document. You should be able to switch off balancing by adding \raggedend to your preamble.

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You're overcomplicating things. You don't need floats (figure) and \caption. Adjust the definition of \problem to suit.

Note that I didn't load graphicx because I don't have your images. Load it and, of course, remove the bogus definition of \includegraphics I added just for the example.

\documentclass[11pt,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[includehead,top=2mm,bottom=1.5cm,hmargin=1.5cm,headheight=26pt]{geometry}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\bfseries Name:    \\  Date: }
\fancyhead[R]{\bfseries 6th Grade Math  \\   }


\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\newcommand{\problem}[2]{#1\par\nopagebreak\medskip#2\par\bigskip}

%%% just for this example
\newcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{\rule{.3\columnwidth}{2cm}}


\begin{document}

\problem{1) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_1.pdf}}

\problem{2) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{3) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{4) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{5) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{6) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{7) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{8) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\problem{9) Find the area.}
 {\includegraphics[scale=.9]{/var/www/asymptote/pdf/parallelogram_a_3_4.pdf}}

\end{document}

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