Page Layout ⇒ Avoid blank space after chapters

[Seanshine]

It does work perfectly in a fresh copy of the template. So something in my version is blocking it.
I didn't change anything in the class-file, so it has to be something in the preamble.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps compare, to find the difference. Or post a compilable code that doesn't work as expected, otherwise it's hardly possible to tell what's going on.

Stefan

[Seanshine]

Both are near identical, the difference is in some added packages. I am amazed by how difficult it is to remove the blank space

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The explanation is usually simple.

Just that the difference is in some added packages is not enough information for me. I need to know what is different. Or what is the complete case in your code.

Stefan

[Seanshine]

Do you mind if I post my preamble here (again)?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

That's fine, go ahead,

Stefan

[Seanshine]

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\documentclass[
11pt,english, onehalfspacing, nolistspacing, liststotoc, headsepline,oneside, 
chapterinoneline, reqno, a4paper, toctotoc
]{MastersDoctoralThesis}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel, xpatch}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex,style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}
\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes} % Required to generate language-dependent quotes in the bibliography
\addbibresource{References.bib}
\usepackage{amsthm, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts, exscale, latexsym, float, eucal, mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs, threeparttable, adjustbox, textcomp, mathpazo, lipsum}
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   ADDITIONAL THESIS FORMATTING
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\AtBeginDocument{
\hypersetup{pdftitle=\ttitle} % Set the PDF's title to your title
\hypersetup{pdfauthor=\authorname} % Set the PDF's author to your name
\hypersetup{pdfkeywords=\keywordnames} % Set the PDF's keywords to your keywords
}
\renewcommand{\chapterbelowskip}{\vspace{20pt}} % spacing after chapter title
\renewcommand*\chaptermarkformat{\chapapp \thechapter\enskip}
\renewcommand{\chapterfont}{\LARGE\bfseries}
\newcommand{\E}{\mathrm{E}}
\newcommand{\Var}{\mathrm{Var}}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2} % in-text line spacing
\makeatletter % align list of figures and tables
 \renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{2}{0em}{3.2em}}
 \renewcommand*\l@table{\@dottedtocline{2}{0em}{3.2em}}
\makeatother
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\chapter}{\if@openright\cleardoublepage\else\clearpage\fi}{}{}{}
\renewcommand{\checktoopen}{%
        \ifdef{\phantomsection}{\phantomsection}{}%
}
 
 
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[Johannes_B]

Ok, i gotta ask once again. Are the list of figures and list of tables on the same page? Is there a page break? There clearly is a break after the table of contents, since you explicitely asked for that.

[Seanshine]

Yes, it works for the contents / lof / lot, I added a pagebreak to avoid overlap here.

After that, it didn't work anymore.

[Johannes_B]

You are far from specific. Please upload a pdf or log file or something that is not a description of you.