I want to decrease the vertical space between the top of the page and the chapter heading. I have tried to follow the instructions for titlesec
but I am not successful. I have tried the following two setups without any changes occuring.
First:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Characters}
The origin of the group determinant begins with Richard Dedekind in the late 1800's. He began to explore the idea after studying the discriminant in a normal field [A]. He made several observations about the group determinant, but was only able to prove some of them.
\end{document}
Second:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Characters}
The origin of the group determinant begins with Richard Dedekind in the late 1800's. He began to explore the idea after studying the discriminant in a normal field [A]. He made several observations about the group determinant, but was only able to prove some of them.
\end{document}
Best Answer
For many reasons,
titlesec
continues to use the default\@makechapterhead
macro for typesetting the chapter title when the chapter style isdisplay
. Sowill do, since
\@makechapterhead
adds a 50pt space above the title and 40pt after it.A different strategy might be to redefine
\@makechapterhead
yourself: