fncychap: Remove vertical space between heading and first element in toF and toT

Question

I'm trying to remove the vertical spacing that occurs when using the fncychap package, but how to do this? I've already done it in the toc by writing the following:

\renewcommand\contentsname{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents
\addtocontents{toc}{\vskip-70pt}

The last line is the one that moves things back to place in toc. Is there a similar way to do this in lof and lot?

Answer 1

Don't use fncychap. All those styles can be generated easily by titlesec

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\filleft\bfseries}
{\titlerule[1pt]%
\vspace{1ex}%
\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}
{20pt}
{\Huge}[\vspace{1ex}{\titlerule[1pt]}]

\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\filleft\bfseries}
{}
{0pt}
{\titlerule[1pt]
\vspace{1ex}%
\Huge}[\vspace{1ex}{\titlerule[1pt]}]

\titlespacing*{\chapter} {0pt}{20pt}{20pt}   %% adjust these numbers
\titlespacing*{name=\chapter,numberless} {0pt}{20pt}{20pt}   %% adjust these numbers

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \chapter{Introduction}
\end{document}

Answer 2

I will have to admit that I now agree with @HarishKumar. The solution to my problem was to skip the fncychap package and use titlesec instead.

Here's the code I've generated from @HarishKumar's example.

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\filleft}
{\sc\chaptertitlename\ \Huge{\thechapter}\\%
\vspace{1.5cm}
\titlerule[1pt]}
{-20pt}
{\Large}[\vspace{2ex}{\titlerule[1pt]}]

\titleformat{name=\chapter,numberless}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\filleft}
{}
{0pt}
{\titlerule[1pt]
\vspace{2ex}%
\Large}[\vspace{2ex}{\titlerule[1pt]}]

\titlespacing*{\chapter} {0pt}{0pt}{40pt}   %% adjust these numbers
\titlespacing*{name=\chapter,numberless} {0pt}{0pt}{40pt}   %% adjust these numbers