[texhax] changing chapter (+ code)

[Karl Berry]

Hi Christian,

    I'm about to finish a report and I want to change the positon of the 
    chapter-headlines. 

You might try the titlesec package
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/).  As an
example, here's what I did in one project:

\usepackage[rm,medium,compact,raggedright]{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-2.5pc}{1pc}

Best,
Karl