Incorrect spacing in new 2018 latex template

[Jay J]

Hi,

Is there a way to fix the spacing between the title and first paragraph. Currently there is no space, while the guideline requires it to be 1cm.

Here is a screenshot of the output:

Would you kindly please help.

Thank you.

Regards,

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Juliet Nyokabi

[Muhammad Nadzir Marsono]

Hi Juliet

Does this happen only to this section only or to all sections? Can you provide us with a minimum working example so that we can verify?

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[Jay J]

Hi Nadzir,

Yes this happens throughout the entire thesis.

Here is a minimal working example of my document. Thank you.

\documentclass{utmthesis}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{array}

\usepackage{url}		

\urlstyle{same} 			%%to make url doi font style uniform with the text

\usepackage{enumerate}

\usepackage[pages=some]{background}

\usepackage{multirow}

\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage{subcaption}

\usepackage[cmex10]{amsmath}

\usepackage{amsfonts}

\usepackage{natbib}

\usepackage{xpatch}

\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption}	%%for bold caption labels for figures and tables

%\usepackage[section]{algorithm}

%\usepackage{algorithmicx}

\usepackage{algpseudocode}

\renewcommand{\thealgorithm}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{algorithm}} 

\xpatchcmd{\algorithmic}{\setcounter}{\algorithmicfont\setcounter}{}{}

\providecommand{\algorithmicfont}{}

\providecommand{\setalgorithmicfont}[1]{\renewcommand{\algorithmicfont}{#1}}

\renewcommand{\algorithmiccomment}[1]{{\tiny\hfill$\triangleright$ #1}}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{amsthm}

\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter]

\newtheorem{conjecture}[theorem]{Conjecture} 

\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}

\newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition}

\newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary}

\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}[chapter]

%\newtheorem{example}[section]{Example}

\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example}

%\usepackage{example}

%\numberwithin{example}{chapter}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}			%%for adding punctuation in the word naive

\usepackage{dirtytalk}

\usepackage{bibentry}				%%to add a list of publications-Option 2

\usepackage{listings}				%%to add programming source code as it is

	\lstset{

  		basicstyle=\ttfamily,

  		columns=fullflexible,

  		frame=single,

  		breaklines=true,

  		postbreak=\mbox{\textcolor{red}{$\hookrightarrow$}\space},

		}

\usepackage{pifont}  %%package for checkmark and xmark symbols

	\newcommand{\cmark}{\ding{51}}%

	\newcommand{\xmark}{\ding{55}}%	

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2212}{-}	%%to allow for hyphen character in the Malay Abstract Section

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2032}{+}

\usepackage[nobottomtitles*]{titlesec}	%%prevent heading titles from appearing at the bottom of the page and it will place your heading in the next page.

\usepackage{seqsplit} 	%%To split a long number over multiple lines without hyphenation

\begin{document}

....

....

\chapter{Introduction}
	\label{chap1}
.......................

\section{Overview}
%
%
\section{Significance of the Study}
This study provides an overview of ...

..................
\bibliographystyle{utmthesis-authordate}
\bibliography{reference_thesis,reference}

%%appendices
\end{document}

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Gaithuru Juliet Nyokabi
MSc. Computer Science (Information Security)

[Muhammad Nadzir Marsono]

I will try tomorrow. I guess one or more packages overwrite the title vskip, probably titlesec. 

I will confirm later.

[Jay J]

Dear Nadzir,

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Regards,

Juliet

[Muhammad Nadzir Marsono]

Titlesec has been defined and used in utmthesis,cls. Redeclaring the package overwrite the seeting. Commenting it shows the desired output. BTW, the code is not really MWE.

%\usepackage[nobottomtitles*]{titlesec}

[Jay J]

Okay....I see.

I will comment titlesec. That solves it.

Thank you.

[Sin Yee Yap]

Hi, I also encounter the same problem but I did not add the titlesec package, so I am not sure what actually causing the spacing between section and paragraph is not working.

[YS Yap]

Hi, can you share your minimal working example?

Thanks.

[Y.S. Yap]

Hi Sin Yee

I added the lines into my template but unfortunately, I could not replicate your problem..

\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{3cm}}

See the first line. I've compiled it today with these codes inside.  

Maybe you can try to comment out these packages in your file (along with the related text) and see if the problem persists?

Regards

Yap

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