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From: clarke@hpdtl.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX pagebreaks
Message-ID: <20430004@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 90 22:06:32 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech. Lab., Palo Alto, CA
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I have encountered this sort of problem with LaTeX when building a document
consisting only of \section and \subsection declarations, but with no normal
text between the declarations.  This omission would cause the formatting to
run beyond the end of the page.  I solved it by building my outilnes with the
form

\section{First Section}
~ % An explicit blank space keeps the formatter happy.
\subsection{First Subsection}
~
\subsection{Second Subsection}

If that is not your problem, it sounds as if you have failed to close a figure
or a table environmnent.