Does anyone know how to change the distance between a chapter title (or table of contents title, or…) and the top of the page, when using the book document class? I'm satisfied with the rest of the typesetting, so I want to do this with minimal intervention.
[Tex/LaTex] Vertical space between chapter title and top in book document class
sectioningspacing
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The titlesec package provides
\titlespacing{<command>}{<left>}{<before-sep>}{<after-sep>}[<right>]
that allows for the spacing around any sectional <command> (like \part, \chapter, \section, etc.). The former two sectional commands require the additional \titleformat to be used (see the package documentation). Consequently, altering <after-sep> should suit your needs.
The following minimal example, altered for <after-sep> equal to \parskip, 5\baselineskip and 150pt illustrates the changes (from left to right):
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{titlesec}% http://ctan.org/pkg/titlesec
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\titleformat{\chapter}{\Huge\bfseries}{\chaptername\ \thechapter}{0pt}{\vskip 20pt\raggedright}%
% Alter <after-sep> in the macro below to vary the separation after the \chapter title.
\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{50pt}{<after-sep>}% \titlespacing{<command>}{<left>}{<before-sep>}{<after-sep>}[<right>]
\begin{document}
\chapter{First chapter}
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}
The lipsum package merely provides some dummy text, Lorem Ipsum style.
I figured it out by using the \usepackage{tocloft} package:
\setlength{\cftbeforetoctitleskip}{-3em}
Which didn't work before since I forgot to change Z to toc:
\cftbeforeZtitleskip to \cftbeforetoctitleskip
I believe Z can be changed to other things, other than 'toc'
Best Answer
The
titlesecpackage provideswhere (according to the package documentation) provides horizontal (via
<left>and<right-sep>) and vertical (via<before-sep>and<after-sep>) spacing around the sectional command<command>. The starred version*kills the indentation of the paragraph following the title. So, for example,provides a
50ptspace before and a<after-sep>=40pt|50ptspace after the chapter title. The parameters were chosen similar to Stefan's answer. Here's a graphic displaying the difference -40pton the left and100pton the right:As per the package documentation,
\partand\chapterspacing can only be specified in conjunction with the\titleformatcommand.