Squeezing an ISMIR Paper

The last days I've spent fighting Latex. Trying to squeeze as much unnecessary space as possible out of ISMIR papers. (Of course I've also been shortening the contents, but I've reached the point where I really don't feel like deleting/shortening any more paragraphs.) Btw, did you know, that you can fit about 25 references into half a page? Right now I'm debating if a baseline stretch of 0.97 is too low. I can't really tell the difference when looking at a paragraph, but overall the paper is 1/4 page shorter :-)