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Is there a way to shorten the distance between chapters in \documentclass{book} so that it is as between sections, and, consequently with no blank page in front of new chapters?

Werner
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Frode Alfson Bjørdal
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A very easy solution would be to switch from book to scrbook and change the style of \chapter to section:

\documentclass{scrbook}

\usepackage{blindtext}


\RedeclareSectionCommand[style=section]{chapter}


\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}

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See the manuals for more information about configuration options.

Other suggestions would be to either use titlesec or replace book by article and do search&replace \paragraph → \subparagraph, \subsubsection → \paragraph, \subsection → \subsubsection, \section → \subsection, \chapter → \section.

cabohah
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    Thanks. The manuscript is long, and for such reasons not amenable to a straightforward migration to scrbook. How may titlesec help? – Frode Alfson Bjørdal Nov 29 '23 at 17:06
  • @FrodeAlfsonBjørdal Switching to scrbook is independent from the length of the manuscript. Same for switching to article. Currently I cannot see I reason, why you cannot do this. Maybe you should ask a question with minimal working example. And what do you mean with "How may titles help?". I've not written anything about "titles" in my answer. Do you mean titlesec? Have you read the titlesec manual and at least some of the questions I've linked? – cabohah Nov 29 '23 at 17:10
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    Yes, I meant titlesec, and had already corrected the typograhical error caused by the auto correction. I was just reading the titlesec manual, and did not manage to find a solution. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal Nov 29 '23 at 17:15
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    Shifting to scrbook causes an unmanageable number of 210 red errors. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal Nov 29 '23 at 17:17
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    The number of errors is irrelevant, because a single problem can result in a very large number of follow-up errors. However, if you have a problem in using a suggested solution, you should as a follow-up question with minimal working example, because we can only help, if we can reproduce a problem. However, I've told two alternatives. Same for using titlesec: If you show us, what you've tried, I'm quite sure there will be someone who can help you. – cabohah Nov 29 '23 at 17:21
  • Afte quite some work, for an hour, I succeeded with migrating to article. Your imput helped me find a quite satisfactory solution to my problems. :) – Frode Alfson Bjørdal Nov 29 '23 at 18:37
  • @FrodeAlfsonBjørdal Because this solution is also part of my answer, it would be fair to accept it. – cabohah Nov 30 '23 at 07:27
  • @cabobah You are right. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal Dec 03 '23 at 20:33