[texhax] FW: huge spacing in LaTeX with linespead

[Steve Schwartz]

Just a guess, but I'd try removing the "[H]" option to the figure to let
LaTeX put the float where it thinks would be best. You haven't shown us
what is on the next page, but perhaps it is something that LaTeX would
prefer to have start a new page. With the float position forced, LaTeX
can't do anything other than fill the page with white-space in order to
justify the bottom of the page.

You might also try using \raggedbottom to turn off the
bottom-justifying. And/or \sloppy to relax the aesthetic rules LaTeX
uses.

Also read the FAQs, e.g.,
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=floats

HTH

Steve

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 11:04 +0100, Javier J. Salmerón García wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I started using \linespread{1.6} and I found strange spacing phenomena
> just as the one that this friend sent me. Any ideas of how to sort this
> problem out?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> email message attachment, "Forwarded message - strange thing in latex"
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: André Montenegro <andre.montenegrof at gmail.com>
> > To: Javier J. Salme <javsalgar at gmail.com>
> > Subject: strange thing in latex
> > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:29:40 +0100
> > 
> > hello javier
> >  
> > is it possible to avoid this huge spacing between the image and the
> > text (please see pic attached)?
> >  
> > I am using \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{report}
> >  
> > and the latex code in that part is:
> >  
> > \begin{figure}[H]
> > \begin{center}
> >   \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{designExample.png}
> >   \caption{Illustration of the functioning of the program}
> >   \label{desEx}
> > \end{center}
> > \end{figure}
> > This figure shows black lines connecting the source point to several
> > points in
> > the \textit{North Edge}. This lines represent the \textit{rays} of
> > points that
> > will be processed in order to calculate the radio loss for each of
> > the
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