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Same vertical spacing for chapter and chapter*

I use \chapter*{} in the \frontmatter and \chapter{} in the \mainmatter. I use titlesec and the styling of the chapter headings is this: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany,oneside]{book} ... ...
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Chapter title alignment with titleformat

I am trying to typeset a title with titleformat as in the following example: I like the overall result, but when the title wraps around it is not left-aligned. Is there any way to indent the second ...
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Spacing before and after section titles

I know this subject has been mentioned before, but I'm still having a problem in creating a space under a section title. I used the titlesec package and then tried using the command ...
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Strict \titlespacing without glue

Problem Description TeX seems to adjust the vertical space in a 2-column document, even though I have specified that no stretching or shrinking is to occur using \titlespacing. A short visualization ...
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\titlespacing* defaults using the compact option

Using the titlesec package with the compact option, what are the \titlespacing* defaults (for \section, \subsection, etc.) for the article document class? (I have the standard defaults from the ...
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Different vertical spacing (parskip) between concurrent section titles and paragraphs

I'm trying to remove the spacing between section headings, but maintain the paragraph to section heading spacing. Even though I set titlespacing before and after to *0, there is still spacing - quite ...
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How can I make \titlespacing not omit the top spacing?

In a multicols*{2} environment for 12pt linehight text, I use \titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{12pt}{12pt} To create exactly 12pt of space before and after subsections. Together with a line height ...
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Translating custom \section format to titlesec

I have some custom \section formatting with a horizontal rule, and I'm trying to DRY out my code by using titlesec to define default formatting options. But I can't exactly reproduce what happens when ...
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titlesec - set top margin for the appendix and bibliography

A while ago I was helped using titlesec to format the chapter title for my thesis. Today a reviewer says that the appendix and the bibliography need 1in top margin. How do I do it? Thanks. ...
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Remove spacing above section in titlesec

I'm writing a document optimized for mobile usage, and as such I want to conserve my space. The spacing that titlesec adds to sections, subsections, etc. is getting somewhat annoying. Is there a ...
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Chapter titles distance

I am using the titlesec package to adjust the chapter titles/headings of my text. Yet, I have trouble with the resulting distance between these new titles and the body of the text. Namely, the ...
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Distance between chapter title and the baseline of the following text

Consider the code below. The distance between the chapter title and the baseline of the following text is font dependent. I assume that there is a glue between the chapter title and the top of the ...
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Space above chapter with titlesec

The following code gives me some space above the chapter title, that I'd like to avoid: \documentclass{book} \usepackage[showframe]{geometry} \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\chapter}[frame] {} ...
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How to decrease spacing before chapter title?

I want to decrease the vertical space between the top of the page and the chapter heading. I have tried to follow the instructions for titlesec but I am not successful. I have tried the following two ...
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391 views

Chapter heading

I was trying to personalize the chapter and section headings using titlesec for my master thesis using the following code \documentclass{book} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{titlesec} ...
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Package titlesec adds extra space on top of \chapter, despite commands to the contrary

My university's Ph.D. thesis guidelines specify an exact top-margin on the first pages of chapters. I am trying to use titlesec to set this margin, but it seems to always set it to be more than it ...
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Setting the upper margin of chapter titles in scrbook

In a scrbook document I need to set the chapter titles close to the upper page margin, without leading number and with a \hrule afterwards. Redefining \chapterheadstartvskip does the trick with the ...
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Positioning the beginning of table of content (toc) to the top of the page

I managed with great help from here to shift the beginning of the chapter titles to the top of the page, but it doesn't affect the table of content. Why is that? And how could I do that? I don't ...
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Setting vertical spacing between different document elements at the same time

I have the following problem. Let's define three types of document elements: Titles, Paragraphs and Longtables. The problem is to setup vertical spaces between them independently. For example, let's ...
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Obtaining the default section spacing into the \titlespacing* parameters

I'm using the book class. I want to modify the spacing before and after my sections using the \titlespacing* command. However, before I do that, I want to let its parameters be such that they ...
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How can I hide the chapter headings number on LaTeX and change the spacing?

I'm writing my Thesis but I have run into some layout troubles, I'm using the standard book document class, which results in my Chapters headings in the form of: Chapter # Name of my chapter ...
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Vertical space before section title with titlesec

I was trying to eliminate the vertical space before and after the title of a section by using the titlesec package and the command \titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt}, but it works only in ...
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Strange behaviour of titlesec, with colored titlerule

With the following MWE, i get the Section title underlined in black : \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \titleformat{\section}% ...
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\addvspace after a titlesec heading

So, I'm trying to make an environment that is always padded above and below by a certain vertical space, no more and no less (unless the previous or following elements require even more space). My ...
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titlesec: Vertical space that I don't want

Again me, still trying to emulate a very specific layout... I used the titlesec package to define chapter and section titles, and am very pleased with the outcome... except of some ponts' worth of ...
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Help understanding/debugging spacing around headings (and other places)

I am trying to get my headings set up to meet my university's thesis formatting requirement. I'm using the titlesec package because it has the ability to suppress the spacing before the second heading ...
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Adjust settings that determine when sections should start on a new page/column

I'm using titlesec in a two column environment, and sometimes my sections start on a new page or the second column, and leave blocks of white space at the bottom of the previous page/column. I am ...
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Titlesec: remove space after empty margin section

I'm using titlesec to assign some custom formatting to my sections. In particular I want to use margin \section's, so that the title section is typeset on the left margin, and the text of that section ...
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Why chapter label below the section label on new page even if by setting same spacing before title (use titlesec package)?

\documentclass{book} \usepackage[margin=0pt,papersize={50pt,70pt}]{geometry} \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\chapter}{\Huge\bfseries}{}{0em}{} \titleformat{\section}{\Huge\bfseries}{}{0em}{} ...
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Vertical space after title of unnumbered chapters (bibliography/ToC)

The title pretty much says it all: It is possible to add arbitrary vertical space after the title of the ToC or bibliography page within the report document class?
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Increase title spacing stretchability using titlesec with compact

I have a two-column document that uses the titlesec package with the compact option. This mostly produces the spacing that I like, but it doesn't give enough stretchability above the section titles ...
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Prevent a paragraph break after a section heading

In my .cls file for my thesis, I have defined \subsection as follows: \newcommand{\subsection}[1]{% \pagebreak[2] \refstepcounter{subsection} \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{ ...
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Change whitespace above and below a section heading

I want to change the spacing around a section heading so that there is less of a gap between it and the paragraph that follows. I found the following commands \usepackage[compact]{titlesec} ...