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As the title says, how do I increase the space between the title and the subtitle in the scrartcl document class?

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a quick and dirty way would be, to use \vspace within the fields –  Rico Jan 16 '13 at 18:33
another way, easier than redefining \maketitle would be to simply use \begin{titlepage} .... \end{titlepage} and define you're own titlepage are you using other extra titlepage commands? –  Rico Jan 16 '13 at 19:26
I don't know, whether Timebandit does mean this with "within the fields", but this is quick and dirty: \title{your title\\\vspace{chosen-length}} or \subtitle{\vspace{chosen-title}\\ your subtitle}. –  Speravir Jan 16 '13 at 20:44
@Speravir I meant exactly that, but I was told that using \vspace is the first step in wrong direction :) –  Rico Jan 16 '13 at 21:03

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up vote 7 down vote accepted

Update: Thanks to egreg's suggestion, here's a shorter patch. We don't need to identify the whole block since \vskip.5em is the only occurrence in the command definition. :)

We could patch \maketitle and replace the original \vskip value (.5em) by our our adjustment. Here's my humble attempt with the help of the amazing xpatch package:








Hello world.


Note that we created a new length (\myspace) to hold our new value. The output is as expected:


Hope it helps. :)

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Here is a solution, changing the whole \maketitle command.

  \ifx\@extratitle\@empty \else
    \noindent\@extratitle \next@tpage \if@twoside \null\next@tpage \fi
  \setparsizes{\z@}{\z@}{\z@\@plus 1fil}\par@updaterelative
  \ifx\@titlehead\@empty \else
  \vskip 2em%
    \ifx\@subject\@empty \else
      {\subject@font \@subject \par}
      \vskip 1.5em
    {\titlefont\huge \@title \par}%
    \vskip 2em % original was \vskip .5em
    \vskip 1em
      \lineskip .5em%
    \vskip 1em%
    {\Large \@date \par}%
    \vskip \z@ \@plus 1em
    {\Large \@publishers \par}
    \ifx\@dedication\@empty \else
      \vskip 2em
      {\Large \@dedication \par}
  \vskip 2em

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The part that is interesting for you, is between \@title and \@subtitle marked with the comment.

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