How to reduce the space before & after \section and \subsection

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How to reduce the space before and after titles specified by \section and \subsection

\subsection

$\subsubsection$

\section

$\section$

You can find very similar questions in the "Related" bar, e.g. Reducing spacing after headings and How to decrease spacing before chapter title? Do the answers to those questions help you? — Hendrik Vogt, Mar 06 '13 at 09:41

score 28 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 22 '23 at 01:38

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You can use the \titleformat* from the titlesec package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{0.1\baselineskip}{0.2\baselineskip}
\begin{document}
\section{First}
asdkfjhsakdjfhsdaf
\section{Second}
asldfhsajldfh
\end{document}

with the first number (0.1) adjusting the space above and second number (0.2) adjusting the space below.

For more details, see section 3.2 in the manual: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/titlesec.pdf

edited Feb 22 '23 at 01:38

TestName111

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answered Mar 06 '13 at 09:49

jub0bs

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This didn't help me (nothing changed). – fepegar Feb 23 '21 at 19:30
2

Instead why didn't you use 0.9\baselineskip to reduce space? – alper Oct 04 '22 at 17:00

How to reduce the space before & after \section and \subsection

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