Page Layout ⇒ Spacing before title in appendix

[jobdone2000]

Hi Guys,

I'm a newbie to latex and modifying templates/styles so I'd appreciate some help with an issue I'm having with \appendix.

I've produced a few appendices using:

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\appendix
\noappendicestocpagenum
\addappheadtotoc
\input{sections/appendix1}
\input{sections/appendix2}
\input{sections/appendix3}
\input{sections/appendix4}
\input{sections/appendix5}
 
 
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Now, the output correctly produces the appendices for me but the title appears around a third of the way down the page. I think this is because the chapter style by default does this. The problem is that I want to raise the title so that I can fit more on to each appendix front page. I've tried:

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- all this does is shift text upwards but leaves the title where it is...

What can I do? Step-by-step instructions would be helpful...

Many Thanks,
jobedone2000.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the titlesec package. There's a useful documentation.

Stefan

[jobdone2000]

Hi Stefan_K,

Thank you for your response, it's much appreciated.

Frankly I couldn't work out how I could use the package. The problem is that I don't want to adjust the chapter tag settings that I've used throughout the document. Instead, I merely want to adjust the titles in appendices.

If I use the following commands, say:

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\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\filcenter\sffamily}
{\titlerule[1pt]%
\vspace{1pt}%
\titlerule
\vspace{1pc}%
\LARGE\MakeUppercase{\chaptertitlename} \thechapter}
{1pc}
{\titlerule
\vspace{1pc}%
\Huge}
 
 
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I'm not sure where this needs to placed, I'm guessing this goes in the .cls file? And this will surely override the 'chapter' tag settings?

Judging from the above, I presume I'll need a separate definition of the chapter tag, if so could you advise how I would go about doing that?

Thanks for your patience,

Regards,
jobdone2000.