Page Layout ⇒ New page is created before my introduction page.

[melvinmathewphilips]

A new page is created just before the introduction page, I will post by code below,

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[a4paper,hmargin={3cm,2.5cm},vmargin={2.5cm,2.5cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\lhead{\tiny THESIS PRELIMINARY REPORT}
\chead{}
\rhead{\tiny title}
\lfoot{\tiny DEPT}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
\begin{document}
\doublespacing
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries\centering}
  {\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}
	\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-40pt}{40pt}
\pagenumbering{global}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}
\begin{center}
\chapter{\textbf{Introduction}}
\end{center}

Please somebody help...thanks in advance
Melvin

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

the code you posted is not complete.

Your code is more than weird. Why is the chapter command enclosed in a center-environment? Why is there \textbf inside the argument of chapter?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Melvin,

welcome to the forum!

Chapters always start at the top of a new page. If you don't like this, perhaps don't use the \chapter command.

This is strange:

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\begin{center}
\chapter{\textbf{Introduction}}
\end{center}

Do you want to center a whole chapter? Or do you mean just the heading? You got \bfseries and \centering via \titleformat already.

Stefan

[melvinmathewphilips]

thanks for reply Stefan_K, Johannes_B ..I am a beginner in latex. I prefer collecting info on latex through internet all the time. I take all your suggestions. Thanks again

[Johannes_B]

If you are interested in a good introduction, i can recommend LaTeX for complete novices.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

On the Internet, there's sometimes information which is 10 or 20 years old.
Feel free to ask here anything, what you would like to know. In forum answers you can get the most current information based on the newest packages.

Stefan

[melvinmathewphilips]

[Stefan Kottwitz]

By the way, writing completely caps is not so popular any more today. You could use \MakeUppercase or better: \scshape. Also, caps (emphasizing) are a contrast to \tiny.

You could try:

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\lhead{\small\scshape Thesis preliminary report}

\pagenumbering{global} can be removed. There's no global page number command, it would result in an error without the switch to arabic.

You are learning LaTeX because you started with it for writing a thesis? Let us know about the progress!

Stefan