Nick Burgan wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use the titlesec package to produce more compact chapter
> headings. I have read the documentation for the package and on the 2nd page
> it mentions a "compact" option which "reduces the spacing above and below the
> titles". This looks to be just what I want but no information is given on how
> to use this option. Unfortunately my skills in using LaTeX commands aren't
> that good.
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
in preamble
> The package basically seems to give you two main commands
> \titleformat
> \titlespacing
>
> Basically I want to change the title spacing of the chapters, so I would
> imagine that I need to use the \titlespacing command but I'm not sure where
> the compact option should fit in.
for example
\titlespacing{chapter}{0pt}{1*}{1*}
Herbert
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