General ⇒ Space between "chapter #" and "title chapter"

[don3t]

How can I adjust space between "chapter #" and "title chapter"?

For example, the default is:
Chapter #


Title Chapter

...

and what I want is:
Chapter #
Title Chapter

...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

You could use the titlesec package, specifically its command \titlespacing. Have a look at the titlesec manual. A good start would be to copy the titlesec definition of the standard classes chapter heading definition, which you can find in the appendix of that manual, and modify it as desired.

Stefan

[don3t]

Hi Stefan_K,

Thank you for your help.
I'm new in LaTeX, so there are a lot of things I do not know

I did try with google and do as you said, however the result did not change.
The document class that I used here is book, and \titlespacing does not affect \chapter.

I will show my code:

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,hidelinks,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{setspace,titlesec}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\pagestyle{frontmatter}

\chapter{ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS}

\mainmatter	  % Begin normal, numeric (1,2,3...) page numbering
\pagestyle{mainmatter}

\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{*4}{*1.5}

\chapter{Introduction}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I see, here it's an argument of \titleformat. Insert this line and modify the value of 20pt to a different value as desired:

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

Stefan

[don3t]

Thank you in advance.

This works with my example. Unfortunately, in my whole code, I can not compile when adding that code. Anyway, once again, thank you!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

What error message do you get? Which document class do you use?

Stefan

[don3t]

The error here:

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CHAPTER 1.
! Argument of \vspace has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.84 \chapter{Introduction}

doc class and packages I used:

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,hidelinks,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{vietnam}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{titlesec} % defsc is created to define new commands
%\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{graphicx,tocloft,setspace,hyperref}
\usepackage{IEEEtrantools}
\usepackage[textstyle,squaren]{SIunits}

%\usepackage{showframe} %-- to check the border of text

% *** MATH PACKAGES ***
\usepackage[cmex10]{amsmath}
\interdisplaylinepenalty=2500
\usepackage{amsfonts}