Top margin of # titles

[WebDesignPastor]

Hello,
First I'd like to thank you for this template, very helpful to work on my thesis.
I'm currently having a problem with the layout. I found the margin over my main titles (# - H1) too big but I don't manage to reduce it.

I modified the geometry variable in the simple.yaml but it's more about the general layout. What I want is to find where I can configure elements within, like titles but I guess I'll have the same problem for other elements if I need to configure them.

Thanking you in advance

Fanch

[cagix]

The ‘simple’ theme actually just creates a title page and adds a few special pages to your document. It is then translated internally to LaTeX using Pandoc and finally to PDF by pdflatex. I used the 'scrbook' document class, which I think might be the reason for the margins above the H1 headings.

You can give two things a try: Change the value of documentclass: scrbook in line 17 of simple.yaml to another LaTeX class, e.g. article or report. Maybe that will solve the problem with the margins? Alternatively, please have a look at the documentation of scrbook (https://ctan.org/pkg/scrbook) - maybe there is a suggestion on how to reduce the margins. I would be delighted to assist you in adding this to the variables: part of the simple.yaml file.

[cagix]

Hmmm, the H1 headings appear as ‘chapters’ in LaTeX - that explains the particularly large spacing. Even with the article class, the spacing is still quite large. I think you actually have to look for options in the LaTeX class, which I can then add here in simple.yaml.

You can also try to prevent the H1 header from being interpreted as a ‘chapter’ by adding the line top-level-division: chapter to simple.yaml. But this will probably (depending on the LaTeX class) mess up the numbering of the headers.

[cagix]

@WebDesignPastor When I was reading in the scrbook documentation, I came across the class option headings. If you add this class option in simple.yaml and set it to normal or even small (see screenshot, default is big), then all headings will get a bit smaller and also the margins will become smaller. Is that the behaviour you had in mind?

[cagix]

@WebDesignPastor After further investigation: If you add the following snippet to the end of titlepage_simple.tex, the margins for the H1 headings will be set to the values of the H2 headings, a smaller font is also used for H1.

(You then do not need to set headings=normal in simple.yaml.)

%------------------------------------- Simple: Reduce Margins for H1 -------------------------
\RedeclareSectionCommand[%
    afterskip=2.3ex plus .2ex,%
    beforeskip=-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex,%
    font=\LARGE,%
    innerskip=0pt%
]{chapter}
%------------------------------------- Simple: Reduce Margins for H1 -------------------------

Before:

After:

[WebDesignPastor]

Thank you very much for the solutions, it worked out perfectly! Take care

@WebDesignPastor When I was reading in the scrbook documentation, I came across the class option headings. If you add this class option in simple.yaml and set it to normal or even small (see screenshot, default is big), then all headings will get a bit smaller and also the margins will become smaller. Is that the behaviour you had in mind?

[cagix]

have fun writing you thesis :)