Latex: avoid that page text stretches over whole page with "twoside" option

Question

I recently had a problem when writing a Latex document which I posted here. The solution of adding the "twoside" option worked fine for me, except that when I have a page, say the conclusion, where I have just two paragraphs, so maybe half of the page filled and I then add a "\pagebreak" for having the "reference" part on a new page, it stretches the whole content of the conclusion page s.t. it fills up the whole page. This leads to the ugly thing that the spacing between the lines and paragraphs becomes huge.

I googled a bit, but didn't found any option to avoid this.

Answer 1

Add \raggedbottom to the latex preamble that will solve it.

Answer 2

Not quite sure whether this will solve your problem, but try \clearpage instead of \pagebreak .

Answer 3

How about:

\vfill\clearpage

Answer 4

I believe I was able to fix a similar problem with the multicol package, which provides a rather more powerful multi-column environment that the one built into the standard classes.

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I just thought: are you using \raggedbottom? That would be worth a shot before bringing in a new package.