Enlarging a page

There may be occasions where we want to put a little more text onto a page, even if the text will be squeezed a bit or the text height increases. There's a command that will help us out: \enlargethispage.

We shall modify our example a bit. This time, we will try to avoid a nearly empty page by squeezing the text on the preceding page:

1. Remove the \newpage command from our example and switch to 11pt base font. This time, use less filler text in the subsection:

   \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \usepackage[a4paper, inner=1.5cm, outer=3cm, top=2cm,
   bottom=3cm, bindingoffset=1cm]{geometry}
   \begin{document}
   \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
   In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
   \section{Some filler text}
   \blindtext
   \section{A lot more filler text}
   More dummy text will follow.
   \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
   \blindtext[3]
   \end{document}

2. Compile, and the result will consist of two pages...