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For my dissertation, I am using Koma-Script, and I am currently looking for a solution to manipulate the spacing before the table of contents, figures, tables, and bibliography. Specifically, I want to have 5cm of spacing between the horizontal header line and the heading of the index.

I saw that there are suggestions to change the chapter command, however, I do not want to have this spacing for every chapter but only for table of contents, table of figures etc. Do you have any ideas?

Many thanks for your support! :-)

My MWE looks like this:

\documentclass[12pt, tocindentauto, bibliography=totoc, listof=totoc, final]{scrbook}

\begin{document}


\tableofcontents
\cleardoublepage

\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage

\listoftables
\cleardoublepage

\part{part}
\chapter{chapter}
\section{section}
\begin{figure}
\caption{test}
\label{testfigure}
\end{figure}

\end{document}
Troy
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user129189
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1 Answers1

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You can change the skip before the heading of a chapter by eg.

\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=\dimexpr5cm-\headsep\relax]{chapter}

If this change should only affect ToC, LoF, LoT and other lists under control of package tocbasic you can use it as argument of \BeforeTOCHead.

Unfortunaly there is no bibliography in your MWE. So I guess that you use biblatex:

\documentclass[12pt,bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc]{scrbook}

\newcommand*\specialchapterbeforeskip{%
  \RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=\dimexpr5cm-\headsep\relax]{chapter}%
}
\BeforeTOCHead{\specialchapterbeforeskip}

\usepackage{biblatex} 
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibheading{bibliography}[\bibname]{\specialchapterbeforeskip\addchap{#1}}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\part{part}
\chapter{chapter}
\section{section}
\cite{companion}
\begin{figure}
\caption{test}
\label{testfigure}
\end{figure}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

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Example with package natbib (see comments below of my answer)

\documentclass[12pt,bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc]{scrbook}

\newcommand*\specialchapterbeforeskip{%
  \RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=\dimexpr5cm-\headsep\relax]{chapter}%
}
\BeforeTOCHead{\specialchapterbeforeskip}

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\renewcommand\bibsection{%
  \specialchapterbeforeskip
  \addchap{\bibname}%
  \markright{\bibname}%
}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\part{part}
\chapter{chapter}
\section{section}
\cite{companion}
\begin{figure}
\caption{test}
\label{testfigure}
\end{figure}
\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
First bibliography page
\clearpage
Second bibliography page
\clearpage
Third bibliography page
\end{document}

Result:

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You can also patch \chapterheadstartvskip:

\documentclass[12pt,bibliography=totoc,listof=totoc]{scrbook}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd\chapterheadstartvskip
  {\@tempskipa}
  {\ifspecialchapter 5cm \else \@tempskipa\fi}
  {}{\chapterheadstartvskipPatchFailed}
\makeatother
\newif\ifspecialchapter

\BeforeTOCHead{\specialchaptertrue}

\usepackage{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\xpretocmd\bibsection{\specialchaptertrue}{}{\bibsectionPatchFailed}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

\part{part}
\chapter{chapter}
\section{section}
\cite{companion}
\begin{figure}
\caption{test}
\label{testfigure}
\end{figure}

\bibliography{biblatex-examples}
First bibliography page
\clearpage
Second bibliography page
\clearpage
Third bibliography page
\end{document}

Then you can also use to change the space before other chapters, too:

\specialchaptertrue
\chapter{Abstract}
\chapter{Introduction}
\specialchapterfalse
esdd
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  • Thanks for answer, works like a charm. Apologies for not specifying the package which I use for the bibliography. Unfortunately, I am using natbib. I figured that there is a command \bibsection which should enable to adjust the spacing. However, I was not able to create some working code. I tried things like: \renewcommand{\bibsection}{\specialchapterbeforeskip\addchap{#1}} (with and without the addchap) and I also tried: \bibsection{specialchapterbeforeskip}. Do you have any ideas? Many thanks! – user129189 May 22 '18 at 21:18
  • In the meantime, I figured that the following code works: \renewcommand\bibsection{\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=\dimexpr3.2cm-\headsep\relax]{chapter}\addchap{Bibliography}} However, I have now issues on the labelling of the headings. It shows the headings of the previous part instead "Bibliography". \markboth{}{} did not work. Any ideas? – user129189 May 22 '18 at 22:03
  • I can not reproduce the issue. \renewcommand\bibsection{\specialchapterbeforeskip\addchap{\bibname}\markright{\bibname}} works for me. – esdd May 23 '18 at 09:43
  • Thanks! - I did not include the \markboth into the \renewcommand but added instead the \markboth into document itself! – user129189 May 23 '18 at 18:35