Reduce spacing between chapter and head of page

Question

I'm a bit frustrated because I am writing my thesis in latex and I used the graduate-thesis template from sharelatex.

I just want to reduce the spacing before a new Chapter that is generated between the top of the space and the "Chapter x" with the \chapter{"example chapter"} command.

How can I do that?

Thanks in advance!

By the way, this is the same question as https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/419755/vertical-space-above-title-of-chapters. Please see the comments to that question. Also have a look at https://github.com/johannesbottcher/templateConfusion/blob/master/ourFamousThesisTemplate.md — Johannes_B, Jun 30 '18 at 06:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '18 at 12:01

Since this class is based on the book class, one can take a look at that. Then you will realize that \chapter uses \@makechapterhead which is responsible for this spacing. You can change the original code (from book.cls) accordingly in the preamble:

\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  \vspace*{0\p@}% This is generating the additional space. default {50\p@}
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
      \if@mainmatter
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
      \fi
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

A word of caution: This is a well established standard. I wouldn't suggest to do big changes to that. But in the end it's up to you—your gusto and decision.

Reduce spacing between chapter and head of page

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