[OS X TeX] Problems customizing report.cls

[Aaron Jackson]

On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Daryl Basil Biberdorf wrote:

> Aaron,
>
> Sorry that I must chuckle about "after a few hours and
> several test documents". Kyrie eleison!

Well, that's the way it goes.  Documentation, by its very nature,  
cannot be complete.  I just get obsessed trying to get things to  
work...

>
> However, I express my appreciation at your sample usage of
> the titlesec package. Using it, I got chapter headings that I
> think will satisfy the thesis clerk. The only thing I notice
> is that I'm unable to shrink the distance between the first
> line of the chapter heading (the number in my case) and the
> top margin to smaller than 1 inch (2.5 cm). It bothers me that
> I can't seem to do anything about it, but it will not cause problems
> with the thesis clerk, I think.

This is controlled by the line

\titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{30pt}[0pt]

Just change the 30pt to something smaller to get the chapter headings  
closer to the body text.  If you set it to 0, the chapter headings will  
have the same line spacing as the body text, i.e. single space under  
normal conditions and double spaced if you use  double spacing.

Aaron



>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Basil
>
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Aaron Jackson wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it is confusing, but I managed to figure it out after a few  
>> hours and several test documents.  It makes things much more  
>> portable, so I bit the bullet.  To get what I wanted, I just had to  
>> use the following:
>>
>> \usepackage[compact,indentfirst]{titlesec}% needed to change section  
>> characteristics
>> %%
>> %% change default chapter and section heading characteristics
>> %%
>> %% Syntax:
>> %%               
>> \titleformat{ command }[ shape ]{ format }{ label }{ sep }{ before }[  
>> after ]
>> %%
>> %%
>> \titlespacing{\chapter}{0pt}{0pt}{30pt}[0pt]
>> \titleformat{\chapter}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\centering 
>> }%
>> {\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter.\quad}{0pt}{}[]
>> \titleformat{\section}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesect 
>> ion.\quad}{0pt}{}[]
>> \titleformat{\subsection}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\thes 
>> ubsection.\quad}{0pt}{}[]
>> \titleformat{\subsubsection}[hang]{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}{\t 
>> hesubsubsection.\quad}{0pt}{}[]
>>
>> Aaron
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