Too much white space above chapter headings

[Benjamin Humphrey]

There is far too much white space above the heading for each chapter. The chapter headings need to be moved closer to the top of each page.

[Joe Burgess (joemburgess)]

So I am working on this, and it seems to be annoying and hard. The reason I used the article class, and kept everything as sections and subsections is for this reason. I feel like it might be easier to just use the article class, and keep everything as sections and subsections. I know we loose the part stuff, but I can easily make a part page.

Do you see any other reason to keep the book class?

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

I did find a way to shorten up the headings. It's currently somewhat buried in bzr (which is not my VCS of choice), so I should be able to get it out at some point. It may not be a perfect solution by any means.

I went for the book class because it's a book ;).

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

Ah, got the thing. It's basically a case of adding the following to main.tex:

\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\Huge}
{
 \vskip-3em
 \Large\chaptername
 \Large\thechapter}
{0mm}
{}
[\vspace{0.5mm}]

This seems to have a small bug in that it doesn't put a space in between "Chapter" and the number (eg "Chapter3"), but it otherwise seems to work.

[Benjamin Humphrey (humphreybc)]

Awesome, push it through to main if you haven't already :)

As for the space between the number and the chapter, this will need to be fixed eventually. :)