Heading title with a logo

Question

I'm trying to lay out the following:

XXXXXXX Title
XXXXXXX Subtitle
XXXXXXX Maybe even a date!
XXXXXXX
XXXXXXX


Content, content, content ...

The X's are an image (a logo), and the text is just off to the side. This is sort of a title to a page - not a float, so figures and captions seem wholly inappropriate: this needs to be rendered where it appears in the text, which will be kind of the top of the file. \maketitle is just too bulky, and this should have a more branded feel.

\begin{document}
% What goes here?
\includegraphics{the_logo.pdf}
Title \\ Subtitle \\ Maybe even a date!
% </what goes here>

Content, content, content...
\end{document}

I appreciate that LaTeX generally handles formatting for me, but on the occasions I want to take control of the layout, it seems next to impossible...

Answer 1

• A tabular environment, parboxes or minipages could be used.

• Specify an alignment option, for \parbox and minipage choose [t].

• To avoid alignment problems (\includegraphics sets the baseline to the bottom of the picture) insert \vspace{0pt} before \includegraphics.

• The same trick helps with the aligment of a text line, so you might need it in a second minipage too.

• Be careful with boxes or minipages when trying to fit the text width, use % to avoid additional space in the output because of a line break acting like whitespace.

Here's a small example showing how you could start:

\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\mytitle}[1]{\LARGE \textbf{#1}\par}
\newcommand{\mysubtitle}[1]{\large\textbf{#1}\par}
\newcommand{\mydate}[1]{\small #1\par}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\noindent%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.3\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}\includegraphics[width=3cm,height=3cm]{test}
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.7\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}
\mytitle{Title}
\mysubtitle{Subtitle}
\mydate{\today}
\end{minipage}

\bigskip
\noindent Content, content, content ...
\end{document}

Output: