Spacing in table of contents

Question

I've a problem with my table of contents in LaTeX. For some reason it uses the entire page area. The problem is illustrated here:

http://twpmedia.se/kilten/files/tableofcontent.pdf

Anyone knows a solution to this, so that the second content page uses the same spacing as the first?

Maybe I should point out that I'm using

\usepackage{parskip}

Answer 1

Had the same problem with the second page of toc getting stretched out over the page. What solved it for me was simply adding \newpage:

\tableofcontents

\newpage

Answer 2

Maybe you had some \pagebreak command after \tableofcontents? That would explain the behavior with the scrbook class. If you need to force a page break because you have something like a dedication page, use \cleardoublepage.

It looks like you're using the scrbook class for your document. In this case you shouldn't use the parskip package, but add to the class the corresponding option. Typesetting this mock document doesn't show your problem.

\documentclass[a4paper,parskip=full]{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\begin{flushright}
Dedicated to my cat
\end{flushright}
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\cleardoublepage

\mainmatter
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\Blinddocument
\end{document}

The same (without \frontmatter and \mainmatter) if you're using scrreprt instead.

Answer 3

In documents with the layout "twoside" (like yours) KOMAscript uses \flushbottom. Maybe you can try:

{% Begin a group
\raggedbottom%
\tableofcontents
}%end of the group

But that's just a long shot in the dark, maybe you should provide your preamble here.