Page Layout ⇒ reduce empty space btw title and top margin

[onewiki]

Hi,
In the title page, there is a lot of space between the title and the top margin. How can I reduce it? Thank you very much.

[magicmoose]

Hi

You could make your own custom titlepage, see here for more information

Hope that helps

[onewiki]

thanks for your reply, but is there an easier way since I only need to change the amount of space?

[josephwright]

Not really. The standard LaTeX layouts are rather inflexible.

[onewiki]

Is it possible to do that by changing the top margin for just this page? What's the best way to change margins for just one page? Thanks.

[gmedina]

Hi,

Is it possible to do that by changing the top margin for just this page?..

I don't think so. The link provided by magicmoose contains a useful example. Perhaps if you tell us which document class you are using, how are you building your titlepage, and what kind of layout you are looking for the titlepage, we could give additional advise.

...What's the best way to change margins for just one page? Thanks.

You could try one of the environments provided by the changepage package.

[onewiki]

Here are some codes, just plain ones. Thanks.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

............

\title{sometitle}
\author{me}
\maketitle

[gmedina]

Hi,

try this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to automatically generate some text

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\maketitle{%
  \let\footnotesize\small
  \let\footnoterule\relax
  \let \footnote \thanks
  \null
  \vskip 0\p@ % default: 60pt
  \begin{center}%
    {\LARGE \@title \par}%
    \vskip 3em%
    {\large
     \lineskip .75em%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
        \@author
      \end{tabular}\par}%
      \vskip 1.5em%
    {\large \@date \par}% 
  \end{center}\par
  \@thanks
  \vfil\null
  %
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
  \global\let\thanks\relax
  \global\let\maketitle\relax
  \global\let\@thanks\@empty
  \global\let\@author\@empty
  \global\let\@date\@empty
  \global\let\@title\@empty
  \global\let\title\relax
  \global\let\author\relax
  \global\let\date\relax
  \global\let\and\relax
}
\makeatother

\title{The title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

I borrowed the code from the file article.cls. Change the value of the \vskip command in the line commented with "default: 60pt" according to your needs.

[onewiki]

I tried it, but changing the value of the \vskip command does nothing.

[gmedina]

Then use the \changepage command, provided by the changepage package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{changepage}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to automatically generate some text

\title{The title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}

\changepage{4cm}{}{}{}{}{-4cm}{}{}{}% adding 4 cm to the textheight
\maketitle
\lipsum[1-4]
\clearpage
\changepage{-4cm}{}{}{}{}{4cm}{}{}{}% restoring the original values
\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

Of course, instead of 4cm use the value that suits your needs.