[Tex/LaTex] Reduce space between title and top margin in scrartcl

koma-scriptscrartclspacingtitles

How can I reduce the space between the title and the top margin in my example document with KOMA-Script class scrartcl below?

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\title{This is a nice title!}
\subtitle{This is an even nicer subtitle!}
\author{John Doe}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\end{document}

I already tried this solution in which the titling package is used, however then the \subtitle is not displayed anymore.

I am looking for a quick and dirty solution, like using \vspace{-10px} or something like that.

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Well, if you want it quick and dirty simply add \vspace{-1cm} into the title command:

\title{\vspace{-1cm}This is a nice title!}

Change 1cm for your needs. In the following MWe I added package showframe to visualize the typing area and margins.

With the following MWE

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{showframe}

\title{\vspace{-1cm}This is a nice title!}
%\title{This is a nice title!}
\subtitle{This is an even nicer subtitle!}
\author{John Doe}


\begin{document}

\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\end{document}

you get the result:

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Update: Thanks to egreg's suggestion, here's a shorter patch. We don't need to identify the whole block since \vskip.5em is the only occurrence in the command definition. :)

We could patch \maketitle and replace the original \vskip value (.5em) by our our adjustment. Here's my humble attempt with the help of the amazing xpatch package:

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage{xpatch}

\newlength{\myspace}
\setlength{\myspace}{2em}

\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\@maketitle}{\vskip.5em}{\vskip\myspace}{}{}
\makeatother

\title{Title}
\subtitle{Subtitle}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Hello world.

\end{document}

Note that we created a new length (\myspace) to hold our new value. The output is as expected:

Output

Hope it helps. :)

[Tex/LaTex] How reduce the space between title and article

The vertical extent of the title and author block is controlled by

 \vbox to \titlebox{

so your class appears to have a register of that name that you can set with

\setlength\titlebox{...}

The skip at the end

  \vskip 0.3in plus 2fil minus 0.1in

may as well just be \vss as it can not work as intended as in a vbox that is forced to a fixed height like this, the skip in that position may affect whether the box is over or under full but won't actually affect the space after the title.

Please always post complete documents not fragments, as otherwise answers such as this one have to make a lot of guesses (that might not be correct)

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