General ⇒ how to set the top margin?

[sherlock]

Hi,
How can i make the top margin of the page that contain "chapter, table of content, list of figure, appendix" be the same at other pages in all document?

thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi sherlock,

the top margin should already be the same. But perhaps you mean that the chapter (and like) headings should be set higher? Usually there's a vertical space before the chapter heading.
It depends on the documentclass you are using. For instance if it is report, one could redefine the command \@makechapterhead, this command calls \vspace*{50\p@} before printing the chapter name and number etc.

If this is what you want to change, tell me your documentclass, I could show you some appropiate code lines. Or you want something different then explain a bit more concretely.

Stefan

[sherlock]

Hi Stefan_K

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=3.0cm, rmargin=1.0cm,tmargin2.50cm,bmargin=2.50cm]{geometry}

i want to set tmargin=2.50cm for all pages. But in the page that contain "table of content, chapter" there are a big vertical space like 5.0cm before the titles "Sumary, chapter,..".

Ps. Sorry about my english, i'm learnig speak english.

[gmedina]

As Stefan_K suggested, all you have to do is to redefine the \@makechapterhead command. In the following code I simply removed the additional vertical space:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=3.0cm, rmargin=1.0cm,tmargin=2.50cm,bmargin=2.50cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\chapter{First chapter}
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi sherlock,

here I show one example, where I redefined \@makechapterhead (writes \chapter headings) and \@makeschapterhead (writes \chapter* headings, like \tableofcontents, \listoffigures etc.) I just made the redefinitition and disabled the lines with \vspace*{50\p@}. That removes the additional space. Instead of removing you could even use another value. Same for \vskip 40\p@ below if you want. The code:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=3.0cm, rmargin=1.0cm,tmargin=2.50cm,bmargin=2.50cm]{geometry}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\@makechapterhead[1]{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\renewcommand*\@makeschapterhead[1]{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
    \normalfont
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{One}
Text
\newpage text
\end{document}

At this moment I can see that gmedina already posted a solution. Perhaps it's not bad to see the difference: I used \renewcommand* instead of \def. I like plain TeX too but tend to use LaTeX macros when possible. Furthermore it is necessary to redefine \@makeschapterhead too for the starred chapter headings.

Stefan

[gmedina]

...At this moment I can see that gmedina already posted a solution. Perhaps it's not bad to see the difference: I used \renewcommand* instead of \def. I like plain TeX too but tend to use LaTeX macros when possible. Furthermore it is necessary to redefine \@makeschapterhead too for the starred chapter headings.

Stefan

Yes, I forgot about the table of contents and other sectional units that use \chapter*. In this case, you will also have to redefine \@makeschapterhead:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=3.0cm, rmargin=1.0cm,tmargin=2.50cm,bmargin=2.50cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\def\@makechapterhead#1{%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
    \normalfont
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{First chapter}
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

[sherlock]

Thank you