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The below example shows the table large gap between the top of the table of contents its section heading.
How can this gap be reduced?

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents 
\chapter{This is an unnecessary huge gap!!?}
Here is some text in the section.
\end{document}
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Welcome to tex.sx! It's better to format the whole example (including the preamble) as a code sample -- I did this for you. I also removed the {parskip} tag which is about the package of the same name. – lockstep Mar 13 '11 at 15:57

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If the change in vertical spacing should affect only the title "Contents" and the first entry in the Table of Contents, an \addtocontents command should be enough:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[Bjornstrup]{fncychap}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{\vskip-40pt}
\chapter{Test chapter}
Here is some text in the section.

\end{document}
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@Gonzalo and \addtocontents{toc}{\vskip-120pt}. This worked very well and as expected. – Ian Gregory Mar 14 '11 at 0:39
@Gonzalo, if using the hyperref package (\usepackage(hyperref}) in the preamble, "\vskip-60ptTable of Contents" is inserted into the link and not simply "Table of Contents". Any idea how to fix? – Ian Gregory Mar 14 '11 at 1:48
@Gonzalo, further to this. The word "Table of Contents" in the table of contents is shifted to the right an extra 11 characters due to size of the phrase "\vskip-60pt". How can the text be shifted left and hence left aligned? – Ian Gregory Mar 14 '11 at 2:05
@Ian: I don't see any of those undesired effects after adding \usepackage{hyperref} right before \begin{document} in my example code. If you are experiencing some undesired behaviour, it would be appropriate to open a new question exposing your problem in detail (and including a MWE). – Gonzalo Medina Mar 14 '11 at 2:18
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@Ian: I already provided an answer to the new question. – Gonzalo Medina Mar 14 '11 at 4:25
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Add the following immediately before \begin{document} (halves vertical space):

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\DOTI}{\vskip 40\p@}{\vskip 20\p@}{}{}
\patchcmd{\DOTIS}{\vskip 40\p@}{\vskip 20\p@}{}{}% for unnumbered chapters
\makeatother
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This looks somewhat like the way to do it according to the fncychap package manual. However, I could not get your code to work as there is no change to any spacing. – Ian Gregory Mar 14 '11 at 0:46

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