Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Gap before new chapter

[templateuser]

HI. How do i remove this huge space between the header and the chapter name? And how can I adjust the space between sections/subsections (2nd picture)? Thanks a lot

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Toby

[Vel]

Hey,

To do both of those things you'll need to use the titlesec package. There's been a few questions on how to do specific things with the different section titles so have a look on this forum for some ideas.

Cheers,
Vel

[templateuser]

Hey Vel. Thank you very much! I was able to adjust the spacing in my thesis' content, but not on the content page, list of figure page, etc. I tried \chapter, \part etc. but nothing is working

Cheers,
Toby

[Vel]

Hey Toby,

These three commands are what you want, just add them to your preamble and that's it!

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\renewcommand\listfigurename{New Name for List of Figures}
\renewcommand\listtablename{New Name for List of Tables}
\renewcommand\contentsname{New Name for Table of Contents}

Cheers,
Vel

[templateuser]

Hey Vel,

I was trying to reduce the space above the chapter titles to. Reading the previous posts I tried to use

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{}{-5cm}{}

but it does not appear to change anything.

Do you have any tips?

Cheers,

Leach

[Vel]

Hi Leach,

The reason it's not working is due to this line in the titlesec documentation:

Note. \titlespacing does not work with neither \chapter nor \part unless you change its title format as well by means of \titleformat, the simple settings, or \titleclass.

Therefore, all you have to do is re-define the title with \titleformat such as here, then you can use titlespacing.

Cheers,
Vel