Page Layout ⇒ Lyx chapterheading positioning

[Torben]

Hi everyone,
I hope you can help me. When I convert my Lyx-document to pdf the chapterheadings are always too far from the top (for my purpose).
Is there a way I can change that?
Thanks for your help.

[meho_r]

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this using a GUI approach. However, you can customize sectioning units easily with a little bit of code, using titlesec package. For example, you can put into the preamble (Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble) something like this:

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\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{\chapter}[block]%
        {\filright\bfseries\Huge}% formatting (fonts etc.)
        {\huge Chapter~\thechapter}% defining the number before the title
        {0pt}% space between the number and the title
        {\\[12pt]}% text/command between the number and the title
        []% text/command after the title
             
\titlespacing*{\chapter}% sectioning unit (chapter, section etc.)
        {0pt}% left indentation
        {1cm}% space before the title
        {16pt}% space after the title
        [2cm]% right margin

[Torben]

Tanks a lot, that did it.