I have a weird problem with line breaking in my document. On the second-to-last page (last results before the conclusion), I have a large figure in the upper half of the page and three incomplete paragraphs below, split into two columns. For some reason, I have (1) linebreaks between the paragraphs (which isn't default for this document) (2) a huge amount of empty space above and below the figure, and (3) two orphaned lines on the next page. What's weird is that the linebreaks should be enough to allow the text to not be orphaned.
The format looks a bit like this:
FIGURE ACROSS TWO COLUMNS
incomplete Par1 | End of Par2
\linebreak | \linebreak
Start of Par2 | Start of Par3
pagebreak
last 2 lines of Par3
\linebreak
\section{Conclusion}
I've tried a bunch of things suggested on this forum to fix the problem, but to limited success:
- parbox, samepage, etc. Result: P2 and P3 get thrown all on next page, weird chunk of whitespace
- (As a test) throwing away the paragraph breaks and making P1,P2,P3 all one long paragraph. Result: whitespace at the bottom of the page rises by 1 space, and the widowed lines remain at the top of the next page
- Adjusting the size of the whitespace under the figure. Result: reasonable, but results in a ragged bottom which looks weird unless I manually adjust it to the perfect amount, which obviously defeats the point of TeX
- Adjusting the widowpenalty. This results in the entire document having ragged bottoms, excessive whitespace, and in general looking funny
I've looked through a bunch of the other suggestions, but they haven't worked right. Thanks!
\documentclass{...}, the required\usepackage's,\begin{document}, and\end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem.\linebreakimmediately before\sectionin your source have you? (If you have that would be the source of all kinds of weird breaking effects)