Page Layout ⇒ Move the top matter

[zoopilandia]

Hi!

I'm new to the forum and new to LaTeX so you could say I'm a newbie .

Is it possible to move the top matter (the title, author, date etc etc). I want it to be a little higher on the page than the standard. Is that possible?

Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

Of course this is possible. To give useful advice, we need to know your document class and how you do your top matter. The best would be, if you would post a minimal working example. Just follow that link to learn why and how.

Stefan

[zoopilandia]

Thanks for the swift reply!

Here is all the code:

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\documentclass {article}

\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\maketitle

\section*{Conclusions}

\

text
\end {document}

That's it, there's nothing else. Thanks!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

For sure there are nice general solutions. As here it's deep in the night already, a quick patch: article.cls uses \vskip 2em before the title, you can disable it by these lines in your preamble, using etoolbox:

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\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\@maketitle}{\vskip 2em}{}{}{}
\makeatother

Then it's at the top of the text area.

Stefan

[zoopilandia]

That's a great start, I managed to get it a little higher by changing 2em to 1em, but it doesn't really change that much. I guess I explained my situation a little bad.

How can you make the top margin (the space between the top edge of the page and the title of the article) smaller? That way the top matter will be higher on the page. I've been looking around in article.cls and I haven't seen anything.

Sorry for the confusion, guys. Thanks!

[localghost]

If you want to alter the page dimensions, take a look at the geometry package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[zoopilandia]

Thank you both for the help. The geometry package did the thing.

What you have to do is put

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\usepackage[top=Xcm]{geometry}

(where X is the number of cm you want) in the preamble. There are also a lot of options for it, so be sure to check out the user manual by following the link in the message above this one.

Cheers!