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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:40:29+00:00

I am currently using latex, with the book document class, for a big CS

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I am currently using latex, with the book document class, for a big CS project. It’s about 150 pages right now, but I noticed something very odd.

Randomly about half way through the document, the page formatting breaks. When I do a

\chapter{newchapter}

about half way through this, it creates about a page of space between it and all of the sections. E.g.:

GOOD:

PAGEHEADER  CHAPTER  SECTION #1  Text goes here

This works fine up until about half way through the document, when this starts to happen on all following chapters/sections:

BAD:

PAGEHEADER      CHAPTER 2      SECTION #1       Text goes here.

I do not know why this happens, but no amount of \newpage, page breaking, will fix this. The section directly before it has a lot of embedded PNGs, but I don’t see why that would cause a formatting issue.

When playing with some of the random \setlength commands, I managed to make a bit of a difference but not really.

Is there a way to force a document to reset its formatting?

EDIT

So I figured it out, I did a \newpage after the Section1 text and fixed the issues, seems that latex was trying to group both the first section and the following section with the image. I don’t know why, but it works.

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  1. My first suspect would be the png’s. To confirm, comment out the image inclusion lines and check the formatting. Images have always been the weak point of using latex.

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