It's time for every LaTeX user's favorite game...

"Where the Hell is That Extra Space Coming From?"

It seems I control neither the horizontal nor the vertical...

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@ElectricKeet In my experience, it felt like LaTeX's virtue and vice is that it believes it knows more about what I want than I do, and it is very hard to convince it otherwise. :)

@arilin That... is spot-on.

To be fair, it exists primarily so non-designers can typeset acceptable-looking papers with zero experience. It's not meant for experienced designers trying desperately to flee InDesign. I'm kinda the problem here. *grin*

@ElectricKeet I had that feeling typesetting a couple books with LaTeX and the Memoir class a few years back. (Since then I've bought Affinity Publisher and…haven't used it yet, really? But one day, maybe.)

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