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I am a latex newbie and working on my PhD thesis. Someone told me I could use his template. This means you have a `master' file that codes it includes all other files (title, chapter1, chapter2, acknowledgments, ...).

I am not using this template, but i did find the title-generator very pretty. When i try to include it into my latex-file, it gives an error on something about \resizebox.

I was wondering if there is a way to include this into my phd-tex file (by means of \include{title}).

This is the title file:

 \thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{center}
~\\
\vspace{3em}
\Large{My title}
\end{center}

\cleardoublepage

\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{center}
%\rule{\textwidth}{1pt}\par
%\vspace{2pt}\vspace{-\baselineskip}
%\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par
~\\
\vspace{1cm}

%\resizebox{5em}{!}{On}\par
%
%\vspace{1.3cm}

\resizebox{20em}{!}{my title}\par

%\vspace{3.3em}
%\resizebox{4em}{!}{and}\par
%%{\Huge and}\par
%\vspace{3em}
%\resizebox{23em}{!}{Perception}\par

%\vspace{2em}
%\rule{0.50\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par

%\rule{\textwidth}{1pt}\par
%\vspace{2pt}\vspace{-\baselineskip}
%\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par
%\vspace{\baselineskip}
%    {\HUGE \textbf{INTUITION}}\par
%    %{\HUGE \textbf{THE METAPHYSICS}}\par
%    \vspace{2em} {\Large \emph{and}}\par
%   \vspace{2em}{\HUGE \textbf{PERCEPTION}}\par
%%\rule{0.35\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par %=== use with non-bold
%\rule{0.42\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par
%
%%\rule{0.37\textwidth}{0.4pt}\par %for metaphysics of intuition title

\vspace{0.8cm}%old is 0.5
%\includegraphics[clip=true,trim= 27mm 0mm 137mm 00mm, scale=0.05]{ding2}
\includegraphics[clip=true,%
angle=180,
trim= 25mm 0mm 165mm 00mm, scale=0.12]{ding6}
%\includegraphics{ding}[width=1cm]

\vspace{3em}
{\large\textsc{my name}}\\
%\textsc{M.A.}\\
%\vspace{5em}
%{\large November 2011}
\longpg
\longpg
\vfill

\small
\emph{A thesis submitted for the degree of\\
Doctor of Philosophy of\\
The Australian National University\\
Insert Correct Date Here}\\
\bigskip \bigskip \longpg \longpg \longpg
{\tiny \copyright~my name year%, all rights reserved
}
\end{center}

%~
%\thispagestyle{empty}
%\vfill
%\begin{center}
%  {\small Ole Koksvik 2011}
%\end{center} 
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Do you have the ding file to be used here: \includegraphics[clip=true,angle=180,trim= 25mm 0mm 165mm 00mm, scale=0.12]{ding6}? – Sigur Jan 8 at 17:57
Welcome to TeX.sx! – texenthusiast Jan 8 at 18:00
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I guess you didn't copy the definition of macro \longpgfrom the template into your tex file ... – Kurt Jan 8 at 18:18
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you might want to consider using \input{title} rather than \include{title}. they should actually produce the same output, since they're starting at the beginning of the document, but if something accidentally comes before \include, you could end up with a blank page at the beginning. (of course, you should get rid of the errors first.) – barbara beeton Jan 8 at 18:42
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The template you have copied has some examples of very bad coding style, don't use ~\\\vspace{3em} which makes a blank line followed by e3m of space just use \vspace*{1.5\baselineskip} or similar to make 1.5 lines worth of space. \Large does not take an argument so use \Large My title not \Large{My title} It's generally better to choose a font of the appropriate size rather than just scaling text via \resizebox{20em}{!}{my title} (some font families do just scale linearly but others have designed fonts for each size which will not be used if you use resizebox) – David Carlisle Jan 8 at 20:16
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