[texhax] Control blank area at beginning of chapters

[Lars Madsen]

Thomas Dukleth wrote:
> I am using the memoir document class for a book and would like to control
> or eliminate the large vertical blank area at the beginning of each new
> chapter.
> 
> I have been using a custom chapter style to eliminate unwanted chapter
> numbering.  My current chapterstyle code which merely eliminates unwanted
> numbering is as follows.
> 
> \makechapterstyle{nonumber}{%
>     \renewcommand{\printchaptername}{}
>     \renewcommand{\printchapternum}{ }
> }
> 
> How can I modify this code or something else to control the large vertical
> blank area at the beginning of each new chapter?
> 
> 

it is a bit hard to know exactly what space you are talking about. Could 
you post a minimal (but full) document displaying a sample chapter, such 
that we can just copy'n'paste to our own systems and see if we can fix 
your problem. That makes it a lot easier for us.

/daleif