Page Layout ⇒ Top Margin on Title Page - Article Class

[kenny_larsen]

Hi All,

Slowly getting the hang on Latex but am starting to reach the point where I'd like to make a few minor modifications to the page layout to suit my purposes better.

Essentially I'm looking to reduce the amount of white space that appears before the title in the article class. I am aware there is already a thread on this and the solution was to use the changepage package, however this requires a manual change back to the default margins for future pages and is less than ideal as it requires knowing where the page will break.

I assume there must be a way of using renewcommand to do it, or editing the article.cls (and saving under another name) although I seem to have hit a wall trying. A MWE is below, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kenny

MWE:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\section{Section 1}
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}

[frabjous]

You could try the titling package, and modify the \droptitle length.

For some reason you seem to need a negative value to raise the title. It isn't clear to me why, but this works.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}

\usepackage{titling}
\setlength{\droptitle}{-0.5in}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\section{Section 1}
\lipsum[1-5]
\end{document}

Change -0.5in to whatever.

[kenny_larsen]

Thanks

That works perfectly.

Kenny