Page Layout ⇒ Vertical White Space above TOC Heading

[Lucinda]

I'm new to Latex and am writing a thesis with a page limit. I have to adhere to strict margin, font size and double line spacing guidelines so would like to remove the large amount of white space above the title in the table of contents and Bibliography. I have managed to remove it above the Chapter Headings with the package titlesec. Also is there a way of reducing the spacing between items in the TOC?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Here is the code I am using:
%Thesis main file
%paper and font size
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}
%set margins
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\geometry{top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm}
%line spacing
\linespread{1.6}
%page number
\pagestyle{plain}

\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\newcommand{\bigrule}{\titlerule[0.1mm]}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\bfseries\Huge}
{%
\vskip-2cm
\titlerule
\filright
\Large\chaptertitlename\
\Large\thechapter}
{0mm}
{\filright}
[\vspace{0.1mm} \bigrule]
\titlespacing{\section}{1pt}{*1}{*1}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{*0}{*0}
\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{*0}{*0}
%titles
\title{x}
\author{x}
\date{2010-2011}

%document sections
\begin{document}
\maketitle
%table of contents
\tableofcontents{1}
%Chapters
\include{Introduction}

%Bibliography
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{Bibliography}


\end{document}

[zryw]

\begin{spacing}{0.8}
\tableofcontents
\end{spacing}

Greetings

[localghost]

[…] I have to adhere to strict margin, font size and double line spacing guidelines so would like to remove the large amount of white space above the title in the table of contents and Bibliography. […]

You can do this by the titlesec package that you are already using (see code below).

[…] Also is there a way of reducing the spacing between items in the TOC? […]

The setspace package offers mechanism for increased line spacing that work much better than your method (see code below).

Code: Select all

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\singlespacing\bfseries\Huge}
{\titlerule\filright\Large\chaptertitlename\ \Large\thechapter}
{0pt}
{\filright}
[\titlerule]
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{*2}

\pagestyle{plain}

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

\begin{document}
  \maketitle

  \tableofcontents

  \doublespacing
  \Blinddocument
  \begin{thebibliography}{9}
    \item Bibliography Item
  \end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

The blindtext is only for creating dummy text thus not part of the solution.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten