General ⇒ no pagebreak after chapter title- report class

[christina_t]

Hi! I am writing my thesis, and I am using the report class to include all the different chapter in one document. I am trying to avoid so much white spaces, and I would like to have the chapter title and the text start in the same page.

this is the code i am using

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\onehalfspacing

\oddsidemargin 0.0in \textwidth 6.5in
\pagestyle{fancy}

 
\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
\vspace*{1in}
{\LARGE TITLE OF THE THESIS}
\par
\vspace{1.5in}
{\large Author name}
\par
\vfill
A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
\par
\vspace{0.5in}
University of xxx
\par
\vspace{0.5in}
October 2008
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.66}

\pagenumbering{roman}
\fancyhead[L]{}
\fancyhead[R]{Contents}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\newpage
\listoftables

\begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}

\pagenumbering{arabic}

\chapter{Introduction}
\fancyhead[L]{Chapter 1}
\fancyhead[R]{Introduction}
\include{I}

\chapter{main thesis}
\fancyhead[L]{Chapter 2}
\fancyhead[R]{}
\include{II}

\chapter{Conclusions}
\fancyhead[L]{Chapter 10}
\fancyhead[R]{Conclusions}
\include{X}


\bibliographystyle{humannat}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\fancyhead[L]{}
\fancyhead[R]{Bibliography}
\bibliography{thesisbiblio}

\end{document}

Many thanks in advance!

Christina

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Christina,

use \input instead of \include. if you want to use \include, then move the corresponding \chapter command into the included file.

Stefan

[christina_t]

Hi Stefan, many thanks it works. But how could I also make the title of each chapter start at the top of the page?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

By default 50pt are inserted before the chapter heading. You can change it by redefining \@makechapterhead in your preamble:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\@makechapterhead[1]{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright \normalfont
    \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
        \huge\bfseries \@chapapp\space \thechapter
        \par\nobreak
        \vskip 20\p@
    \fi
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

As you can see I'commented \vspace*{50\p@} out.

Stefan

[christina_t]

thank you so much!! it works great!

[christina_t]

hi! how could i do the same thing (ie less white space at the beginning of the chapters) with the abstract page and the \chapter* environment? many thanks

[gmedina]

Hi Christina,

for \chapter*, you will need to handle those 50pt of vertical space too:

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\makeatletter
\def\@makeschapterhead#1{%
  %\vspace*{50\p@}%
  {\parindent \z@ \raggedright
    \normalfont
    \interlinepenalty\@M
    \Huge \bfseries  #1\par\nobreak
    \vskip 40\p@
  }}
\makeatother

[jbone]

I just came across this thread, as I am looking for a solution to a very similar problem. My thesis is looking fine, apart from these large white spaces above the abstract at the start of each chapter. There are also large white spaces above the first page of each appendix.

I am using the thesis class (which came with MikTeX and TeXnicCenter). I have been digging around the thesis.cls file and have tried zeroing all the \vspace commands, but to no avail.

I'm slightly tearing my hair out over this one, and would be really grateful if someone could help.

[MagisterT]

I use the titlesec-package. On the top of nearly each document I am writing I paste the following code.

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\titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\mdseries\sffamily\LARGE}{\thechapter.\quad}{-6pt}{}
\titleclass{\chapter}{straight}

\chapter now does (nearly) everything I want.