Text Formatting ⇒ Move Heading up for one Chapter

[stefan_fuglsang]

In the report class, chapters begin 70mm from the top edge; that is fine for most purposes, but I need to move the \chapter line up in the appendix section, such that the chapter begins about 40 mm from the top edge.

How can I do this?
-- thanks
Stefan

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper] {report} 
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel} 
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Some blindtext}
\Blindtext
\chapter{Some more blindtext}
I would like the above chapter lines to move up a bit.\\
\Blindtext
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Stefan,

there are several ways:

• Use scrreprt of KOMA-Script instead, which provides many more features for customization. Here you could redefine \chapterheadstartvskip and it's done.
• Use titlesec, \titleformat and \titlespacing.
• Redefine \@makechapterhead of report.cls.

Stefan

[stefan_fuglsang]

Thanks Stefan
This seems to do the trick:

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt] {report} 
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel} 
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Some blindtext}
\Blindtext
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-30mm}{40pt}
\chapter{Some more blindtext}
I have moved the chapter lines up a bit.\\
\Blindtext
\end{document}