reduce space at the top using maketitle

Question

I'm using XeLaTeX for my document and want to style my title page. The problem is, that \maketitle make a large top space, my text begins ca. 10 cm from the top. How can I reduce this space? In the moment it looks very crimped at the bottom.

Here's the explicit code:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\parindent0pt
\parskip6pt
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{microtype}

\setmainfont[Path = fonts/,
    BoldFont = akko-w01-bold.ttf,
    ItalicFont = akko-w01-italic.ttf,
    BoldItalicFont = akko-w01-bold-italic.ttf
 ]{akko-w01-regular.ttf}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % Paket für die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung
\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
...
\title{Title}
\date{}
\author{}
\begin{document}
\input{./acronyms}
\input{./glosaries}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
\textbf{{\large Thesis}}\\
\ \\
von

Name Name\\
aus City

Matrikel-Nr.: Number

{\today}\\
\ \\
\ \\
\textbf{{\large University}}

University long

University subtitle

Vorgelegt bei

\textbf{Name of the prof}

\ \\
\textbf{{\large company}}

department

city
\end{center}


\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
  \begin{flushleft}
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{images/university.png}
  \end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
\begin{flushright}
    \includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{images/company.png}
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}

I think this might be a duplicate of http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29593/shift-title-and-author-text-up — Ubiquitous, Jul 10 '13 at 15:23

score 58 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '13 at 07:12

58

Include the \vspace command in the title command, i.e. change the line

\title{Title}

into

\title{\vspace{-2cm}Title}

answered Jul 10 '13 at 07:12

bene

2,090

it works too, used this way because the (rest) content is moved up too :) – lis Jul 10 '13 at 08:12
4

and you can change the spaces around date/author as well and you don't need additional packages. – bene Jul 10 '13 at 08:22
1

just saved the day for me! Thanks a lot. The answers here http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29593/shift-title-and-author-text-up simply sound useless after reading your answer, no offence! – Aug 09 '15 at 18:42
this is great works perfectly, thanks! – Henry Lee Apr 07 '21 at 12:15

score 24 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 10 '21 at 12:02

24

The titling package can help you in this.

From its documentation:

The titling package provides control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command

In your case, adding these lines in the preamble (adjust -3cm to your needs) should do what you want:

\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-3cm}

Have a look at the documentation for more options (e.g. spacing after the title)

edited Nov 10 '21 at 12:02

Community

1

answered Jul 10 '13 at 07:12

karlkoeller

124,410

1

For making a frontispiece, I would however use the titlepage environment, as you can see in these answers of mine: answ1 and answ2, or in several other answers in this site. I think you have more flexibility with it. :-) – karlkoeller Jul 10 '13 at 09:14
I've added \setlength{\droptitle}{-3cm} and latex refuses to add a second page to the document, always errors with undefined control sequence \end{document} as soon as the text exceeds one page – msrd0 May 26 '18 at 17:38
@msrd0 Did you set the command in the preamble? It is not meant to be used in the document environment. – smiddy84 Jan 25 '22 at 08:58

reduce space at the top using maketitle

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