Add additional text on title page

Question

I want my title page to look like this

                                Title
                                Author
                                Date
          Coordinator1                          Coordinator2
                          Dept. of Physics
                            ABC College

If i put some text after \maketitle, it gets shifted to next page.How can i add this to same page ?Is there any way of doing this (except writing the whole title page on my own) ? Thanks in advance.....

Answer 1

Here's a quick way by means of a \date hijacking:

\documentclass{book}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\date{\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering%
  \today\endgraf\bigskip
  Coordinator 1 \hspace*{3cm} Coordinator 2\endgraf\medskip
  Dept.\ of Physics \endgraf
  ABC College}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

The reason for being able to do this is because the title macros (\title, \author and \date) can contain anything, as long as it's not paragraphs. \endgraf is okay though.

Of course, it is not that difficult to create your own, non-standard title page using other means (like the titlepage environment). For more on this, see Resources for title page and front matter design.