Text Formatting ⇒ Spaces above and below headings

[nipj]

Hello!

I found in this forum the following code to remove spaces before "\chapter":

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\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter % 
\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}{\vspace*{50\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter head
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}{\vspace*{50\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter* head
\makeatother

Is there a way to do remove spaces after "\chapter" using similar commands?

Thanks & Regards.

[Johannes_B]

Welcome to the forum,

sure there is a way. The standard classes are very old, one could argue that they are full of spaghetti code.
While the space above chapters is done using vspace, for the space below, the class uses \vskip for spacing. A package like titlesec can cahnge the appearance of chapters, sections etc using commands, though i personally don't think the package is intuitive.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter %
\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}{\vskip 40\p@}{\bigbreak}{}{}% Removes space below \chapter head
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}{\vskip 40\p@}{\bigbreak}{}{}% Removes space below \chapter* head
\patchcmd{\@makechapterhead}{\vspace*{50\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter head
\patchcmd{\@makeschapterhead}{\vspace*{50\p@}}{}{}{}% Removes space above \chapter* head
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\chapter{Wallaby}
\blindtext
\chapter*{Alpaca}
\blindtext
\end{document}

In the example above, i did not completely remove the space below the chapter title, because it looks just awful.

[nipj]

Your code works!

And I agree with you, "titlesec" package is not that easy to work with, at least for beginners like me.

Thanks for your time and help!

[nipj]

How would the code look if someone needs to completely remove the space below the chapter title.

I tried myself by deleting the increasing, decreasing and deleting the number "40", without success. I also removed "\bigbreak", but I'm not sure if the space below is deleted 100%

Regards.

[Johannes_B]

Removing \bigbreak is the way to go.

[nipj]

Thank you.