{titles} is about typesetting document titles, usually with the help of \maketitle or the titlepage environment. A popular package is {titling}.
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Set position for \maketitle in article
I want to create a handout to support a speech I have to give.
Since I am only familiar with the \documentclass{article}, I wrote the following code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
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Academic information
Is there any package that extends article class, so formating paper title can became a little easier and cleaner? In particular email, role, university name ,....
I mean a clean preamble like ...
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How to test if some command similar to \author is used in .tex file?
I want to modify \maketitle command in a new document class based in memoir. \maketitle command should include a new \director command similar to author. If this command is defined in text file, the ...
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Access title and author in custom class [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Use the values of \title, \author and \date on a custom title page
How can I access the title and author in my custom class based on article, so that I can insert them ...
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How to double space the \thanks footnote?
The journal I intend to submit my paper to requires all the text, including footnotes and acknowledgments, be double spaced. I use the setspace package and put \doublespacing and ...
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Using \author and \thanks
What is the correct way to use \author and \thanks when I want to have multiple authors having common affiliations? For instance, using
\author{ABC\thanks{XYZ} \and DEF\thanks{UVW} \and ...
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Beamer: define a backgroung color for the “part page” frames
I'm trying to make a .sty template, but I cannot figure out how to define a dedicated background canvas for the "part page" frames.
Here (How to add background only to title frame and an other only ...
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logo in the first page only
I want to insert the logo in the title page only. However, it displays on all pages!
How can I make these two figurs display as logo in the title page only?
I type in the preamble:
\logo{%
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Change position of glossary title
I am a total beginner with LaTeX and I can't find a way to solve the following problem. I have a glossary which I have printed in two columns by adding the code that I have included at the end. The ...
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Affiliation of author in achemso class
I use the achemso class in order to write a scientific article. I have to set author and their affiliation with affiliation or altaffiliation commands. Here is a short example :
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How do I manually break a line in a custom title?
I'm using my university's LaTeX class package to write my thesis, but I'm running into an issue with line breaks in the title. I'm required to break my title manually in a certain spot, but the ...
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Problem with centering the text of the title page and more
The following is the code related to my title page:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[algoruled,vlined]{algorithm2e}
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How does “missing \begin{document}” work?
I would like to know how does LaTeX invoke the error Missing \begin{document}. I would like to reproduce it in the sense of the following MWE (it will become a part of my own document class):
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Beamer, framebreaks with different subtitles
A frame in Beamer presentation can be broken in number frames with the same frame title. Those titles can be subsequently enumerated. Is there way, that in such cases each slide in common frame with ...
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Titlepage with tikz
I need some help with a titlepage for tikz
I want to create the following... 3 red lines, a gray space a green space but I already fail with just creating a line across the whole page...
\draw ...
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Hide navigation information in sidebar on title page and TOC page (beamer)
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I am trying to remove the navigation information in the sidebar that lists a TOC on the title page and the TOC page in a beamer presentation. I still want the sidebar to appear ...
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Custom title page in report or book class?
I have a long academic report to write and I am thinking of using the book class or the report class? However in both these classes the title page has the title in the centre. I want to make my own ...
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How to avoid header and footer on first page? [duplicate]
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Suppress Fancy header and footer on first page only.
I'm using header and footer but I want to avoid on very first page since it is title page. How can i implement it?
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How to make a new command similar to \author
I'm preparing a new template for our students' projects based on memoir. All this projects are supervised (directed) by one or more professors so I would like to declare a command like \author but ...
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newline in title on first page but not on subsequent pages
My title had only one word on the second line and it looked weird so I fixed it by adding \\ in the appropriate place. Now on the odd-numbered pages where the title is at the top, it has a really ...
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How to force lower case in the title?
I need to force some letters to be lower case in the title because it is part of a mathematician's name (deRham). How can I do that?
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How to add more information to title slide
I have the following section of TeX:
\documentclass[landscape]{slides}
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\author{My Name}
\title{My Title}
\date{The Date}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
\maketitle
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Disable author names in the bottom line of my LaTeX slides
In my presentation with LaTeX slides the author name appears in the bottom line of every slide. Is there a way, to disable the appearance of the name in the bottom line, whereas I want to put the ...
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Images, titles and margins
I am writing a report and I need two things: there must be an image in the title page at the top left and I have to add a 5mm left margin to odd pages and a 5mm right margin to even pages, how can i ...
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How to reduce the space between the author block and paper text? sig-alternate.cls
I am using the template sig-alternate.cls, but I find that the space between the author block and the paper text is too large, how can I reduce this space?
Edit: I want to reduce the space between ...
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A compact LaTeX template for sig conferences that does not produce a permission block [duplicate]
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How to remove the copyright box on a paper that uses the ACM sig-alternate.cls class file?
I am editing a paper with LaTeX and I use the template sig-alternate.cls, ...
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Centered title page in twoside report
I'm writing my thesis using a twoside report. However, when it comes to the title page I think I want to have it centered i.e. the left margin and the right margin to be equal. How can I achieve this ...
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Obtaining a list of authors and keywords in the given document
I'm typesetting a document based on the Elsevier document class.
I want to use hyperref's \hypersetup to set title, author, and keywords of the generated PDF file to the corresponding values.
The ...
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How do I put multiple lines in a title when using the apa6 class?
Right now I'm using \title to define a title and \maketitle to display it. How do I put multiple lines in the title? I need to adhere to APA 6th edition format, and according to the book I'm using, I ...
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How to make a title of two or more lines?
My document has a long title, so I want the title spans two lines.
I've use this:
\title{my title that must be in two or more lines}
but it not works. How can get it?
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Help with command \author for more than 2 authors
I need to insert two authors name in a paper. However, the names appear separated by a comma and not with the word AND between them.
I am using the command \author for each author and also the other ...
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Copyright page on back of title page
I am trying to get the copyright page to print (or display) on the back of the title page. What is happening is that I get a blank page after the title page and then the copyright page opens on the ...
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How to put the block title at the center in beamer?
In my beamer block the title always comes left alined. Is that possible to make the title of the block centered?
\documentclass[final, 12pt]{beamer}
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Beamer \institute text size change to small
I am using beamer with the \institute command.
I have several institutes and just want to change the font size of the institutes and not the whole document. I would like the institutes to be much ...
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Authors in amsart
Is there any way of having a nicely formatted authors section in amsart?
By nicely formated I mean something like here:
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Force title break in apa6e
Apologies in advance: this is not minimal in the example but I am afraid my lack of knowledge about what packages control what could lead me to leave out packages that have an effect on the output.
I ...
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Why is LaTeX refusing to create a new page to place content?
Ihave stumbled upon strange behavior (at least for me). I am generating a document composed of a set of blank framed boxes, each with a text attached above, and it will always be most likely necessary ...
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onehalfspacing in titlepage
How to make onehalfspacing in titlepage? I tried to add \onehalfspacing command in different places there, however, no spaces were produced.
\begin{titlepage}
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How can I clear the color of \title in \titlepage?
I use the Madrid theme with the beamer class and need to customize the \titlepage.
The first thing is to remove the background color of the \title on the first page (\titlepage).
I searched TeX.SE ...
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Block with out title space in a specific position and certain length (for Title box in a poster)
I am working on a poster. As I need to draw a block in a specific position, I do that using varblock. All of this causes a banner at the top of my title block (see the picture). Is that possible to ...
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Chapters in TeX
I've been writing in TeX for a few years, but this is my first time writing a long document.
I have always used \title for the main title, and \section for smaller titles. It seems that it is only ...
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\thanks won't appear in IEEEtran
I'm writing a article for a conference and using the IEEEtran class, this the first paper I'm doing with LaTeX but there's a problem I just can't solve I'm trying to write some acknowledgments but ...
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authblk footnote marks before/atop commas
The authblk package, in footnoted mode, puts footnote marks inside commas ("Alice1,") which is bad typography. Is there any way to persuade it to put the footnote marks outside the commas ...
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How to make onecolumn/twocolumn parts in a document class?
I have a simple document class adapted from article, but independent (.cls file). The document is twocolumn, but when I add a title with
\newcommand\maketitle{\begin{titlepage}%
\begin{center}%
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amsart.cls capitalizes the article title. How to disable it?
I am writing an article with amsart.cls. amsart.cls capitalizes the title of the article. I looked into amsart.cls and found that \MakeUppercase is used in \maketitle. I tried to turn off this, but I ...
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Names on title page of Beamer presentation
We have several group members whose names should be on the title slide of a Beamer document. However, when I put something like this:
\author{Person A \and Person B \and Person C \and Person D \and ...
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Alignment's \author
How I can put authors in list form.
\author{ aaaaa \and bbbb \and ccc }
Ok, but the names appear on the same line and I want to display them vertically.
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Unwanted space between logo and title in titlepage
I have a problem that I can't resolve.
I already did a title page using LaTeX but it contains many spaces between the logo of my school and the name of the school.
This is my code please if any person ...
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Can I Specify Title Page Customization in a Template Instead of My Document?
I'm trying to create a LaTeX beamer theme to match the official PowerPoint template of Rutgers University. I've been able to create the title page, and this MWE
\documentclass{beamer}
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What documentation visually explains the various available commands to control the vertical distance between two lines of text?
I have a title page containing several lines of text, e.g.:
Series
Title
Author
Institution
I would like to fine-tune the distances between the lines, however, I do not understand which tools ...
