[Tex/LaTex] Shift title and author text up

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What is the best way to shift the title text 'up' in a LaTeX document compiled with pdftex? When I do this:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper, onecolumn]{article}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
\title{Blah Blah Cool}
\date {}

\begin{document}
    \maketitle
    \section{Foo}
    foobar foobar foobar...
\end{document}

There is a quite a bit of space between the very top of the page and the title ("Blah Blah Cool"). How can I decrease/remove this space?

Best Answer

The titling package might help.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{titling}

\setlength{\droptitle}{-10em}   % This is your set screw

\author{The Author}
\title{The Title}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

See the package manual for more details.

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