[OS X TeX] Underfull \vbox

Roussanka Loukanova rloukano at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Sun Jun 24 10:25:31 EDT 2007


Hi,

Does anybody know how to resolve in a good way the problem causing 
following warning in the output (and log) file:

Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [2]

I only got that it is due to the location of  \section{...} about the end 
of a page and that LaTeX is outputting the section title at at the 
beginning of the next new page. But if I force the \section{...} on a 
new page by

\newpage
\section{...}

the warning disappears.

Is there a better solution? Is it just better to leave the warning without 
attempts to get rid of it?

Just in case, I am including the entire output buffer:

Roussanka
---------
Running `LaTeX' on `temp' with ``pdflatex  -interaction=nonstopmode 
"\input" temp.tex''
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, 
dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, 
german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, 
finnish,
  french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, 
ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, 
polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, 
swedish,
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(./temp.tex 
(/Users/rosi/Library/texmf/tex/latex/all_latex/llncs2e/llncs.cls
Document Class: llncs 2004/08/17 v2.14
  LaTeX document class for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) 
(./temp.aux)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) 
[1{/usr/local/t
exlive/2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active [2]
[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] (./temp.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional 
information)</usr/local/texlive/2007/te
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fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/typ
e1/bluesky/cm/cmbx9.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky
/cm/cmcsc10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmex
10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi10.pfb></
usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi5.pfb></usr/local/
texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi6.pfb></usr/local/texlive/20
07/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi7.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-d
ist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi9.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/
type1/bluesky/cm/cmmib10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bl
uesky/cm/cmr10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/c
mr5.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr7.pfb></u
sr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr9.pfb></usr/local/te
xlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/200
7/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmsy7.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-di
st/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmti10.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/
type1/bluesky/cm/cmti9.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/blue
sky/cm/cmtt9.pfb></usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/ams/ms
bm10.pfb>
Output written on temp.pdf (15 pages, 191873 bytes).
Transcript written on temp.log.

LaTeX finished at Sun Jun 24 16:09:07


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