{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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Use the values of \title, \author and \date on a custom title page
I am trying to create a title page of my own.
Is there a way to make use of the \title, \author and \date commands inside the title page?
For instance:
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\title{Something Cool}
\author{Cool Dude}
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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 can I use @author, @date, and @title after maketitle?
I want to include the values of author, date, and title in my use of fancyhdr in a document that uses \maketitle. Googling about, I saw that @date, etc. can access the date, etc., values set in the ...
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How to create a background image on title page with LaTeX?
I want to put a background image on a title page of a document. Is it possible and does it work?
EDIT:
The answer by Presidenten using the eso-pic package and my answer found after some research ...
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What does the titlepage environment do and what are its benefits?
I'm speaking about the article document class only, because report and book deal with titles in a different way.
Obviously, the titlepage environment triggers a new page after it, and it resets the ...
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Resources for title page and front matter design
I need to create the area between the outer cover and the table of contents for a novel. This will present (at least partially, but preferably at a minimum):
the title
the author's name
the ...
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Shift title and author text up?
What is the best way to shift the title text 'up' in a LaTeX document compiled with pdftex? When I do this:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper, onecolumn]{article}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
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Different margins for title page
My document class is article with a4paper. The margins that I want for the body are:
top: 1 inch
bottom: 1 inch
right: 0.5 inch
left: 1.5 inch
The title page should have a 1 inch margin on all four ...
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Remove margins for title page
The scrbook class calculates margins automatically. For the title page of a book, I would like no margins at all, so that the text would be centered properly.
How can I disable all margins for the ...
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How can I get \maketitle to create a separate title page with the article class?
I am working on a maths assignment and new to using LaTeX. I have written the assignment up but I would like the title page to be its own page. Currently my title page is a few lines generated by ...
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titling's \thetitle, \theauthor and \thedate don't work
I was trying to use \thetitle, \theauthor and \thedate of the titling package, but none of them worked. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titling}
\begin{document}
\thetitle \theauthor ...
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How to customize \titlepage in beamer?
I'm trying build my own theme to use for work-related presentations in beamer. I'm not so familiar with how to write the themes, I'm customizing a title page manually at the moment.
What I want to ...
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Preventing page break after title page
I am trying to create a title page for my thesis proposal, which is using the article class. I have the page formatted correctly, but it does not act like the default article title page where the ...
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How to insert an image in the front cover of a report?
I'm pretty new in LaTeX and I'm currently writing my BSc Report.
Does anyone happen to know how I can insert my uni logo on the front cover of my report?
I'm using
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Redefining \maketitle to put a maximum of information in a page
I'm currently writing LaTeX articles containing all of my lessons content in order to have it on a very few pages instead of the heavy thing the teacher gives us with exercises, demonstrations and so ...
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Showcase of beautiful title page done in TeX
The book is mostly meets by the Title Page. Default TeX \maketitle are simple and minimalistic.
I'm looking for examples of Title Pages:
complex - have different formatting;
beautiful and awesome;
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\subtitle doesn't work in article document class
I'm relatively new to TeX but until now I used mostly the beamer class. There I did this:
\documentclass{beamer}
\title{title}
\subtitle{subtitle}
\author{name}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
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Should I place \title, \author, \date in the preamble or after \begin{document}?
The motivation for this question
Forgive me if this looks very basic to you but nobody has pointed out to me yet until now in a comment to a question that the \title command (and thus the other two ...
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removing page number for title page
I'm using titlepage to create a title/abstract page for a paper, and I don't want a page number to appear, so I use the following fragment:
\begin{titlepage}
\clearpage\thispagestyle{empty}
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Subtitle with the \maketitle page?
Does there exist some command for subtitles in the \maketitle thing?
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How to add background only to title frame and an other only to the last frame?
I just want to add a background only in the beamer title page. I can add it in the .tex as follows:
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{
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How to remove the copyright box on a paper that uses the ACM sig-alternate.cls class file?
The ACM provides a LaTeX template called sig-alternate.cls (webpage, class file). The current version is 2.4 released in April, 2009.
I would like to submit a paper for review using this class file. ...
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How to make a title page with beamer without navigation bar, using theme warsaw
Using beamer, how to make a title page without a navigation bar, using the theme "warsaw" or how to get a title page from another theme, but maintaining the navigation bar on the other frames?
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Title page using TikZ
Based on the question on Use TikZ to draw frontpage, I have taken the liberty to create my own custom LaTeX title template for my school's reports. So far I created this.
\documentclass[paper=a4,
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title too long when using amsart
I am going to submit an artcile to a conference, and it requires the authours to use amsart document class. When I use this class, on the top of each page, it shows the title or authros name(and ...
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How to write a title/abstract spanning 2 columns in 3-column page using multicol?
My article requires that I put the title and a small abstract spanning the left 2 columns in a 3-column page, that is, the 3rd column to the right of the title/summary block must follow with the body ...
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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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How can I make the title of my BeamerPoster appear on the same page as the actual poster?
Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter}
\mode<presentation>{%
\usetheme{Frankfurt}%
}
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Simple Author, affiliation and email example fails in RevTex4-1
I can't get the following simple author / email / affiliation code to function perfectly in a document for Journal of Mathematical Physics (JMP):
\documentclass[aip,jmp,preprint]{revtex4-1}
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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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\pagestyle{empty} doesn't seem to work for page with \maketitle
In the LaTeX document pasted below, I still see page numbers upon compiling, even though I've included a \pagestyle{empty} command below the \maketitle command. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks ...
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Creating static head title for a document class
I am making my own document class in LaTeX but I have a problem on how will I make this title appear automatically when my class is used.
Should I code it this way?
\AtBeginDocument{%
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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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Adding more items on tex article title section
This is what I have at the head of my tex document (article):
\title{Some Article}
\author{John Doe}
\date{\today}
\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
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Problem with vertical space in Memoir title
I've been struggling with titlingpage and Memoir a few hours, trying to make the document title have equal linespacing between its lines when using \\.
The code is:
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Lineheight of \huge text too small
I have the following two titles in my custom title page: (originally two different languages)
\begin{center}
{\Large
My Thesis\\
\vspace*{0.5cm}
\textbf{\huge
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Need Help to include personal details in make heading [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Heading title with a logo
I would like to ask you how to create the makeheading in such a way that, my name and personal details are beside of my Photo. I need as ...
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What's the correct use of \author when multiple authors?
Working on a project, the article we are writing is written by me and someone else. How should I fill the \author?
What about \author{LASTNAME1, FIRSTNAME1 \& LASTNAME2, FIRSTNAME2}? It doesn't ...
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Adding more than one author with different affiliation
My goal is adding more than one author with different affiliations, it will look like something:
Author A, Author B, Author C, Author D and Author E
A,B,C Department of Computer Science
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Removing vertical space inside \maketitle
In \documentclass{article}, the \maketitle command results in a lot of wasted vertical space. Is there any way for me to remove it? In other words, I'd like the author to appear directly below the ...
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Where to put the institute information in the article document class?
I've seen in other document classes that one can input the authors' institutes via special commands, for example in revtex4 I can put
\title{Aggregation According to Classical Kinetics---From ...
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Adding custom image in title slide
I use beamer with the warsaw style to create presentation. I would like to insert an image in the title slide as part of customization. An image that fills the whole breadth of the slide but limits to ...
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Omitting the date when using \maketitle
I'm using the \author and \title commands to produce a title with \maketitle. I also know that there is a \date command to specify the date of my work. However, if I omit \date, \maketitle will ...
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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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How to prevent hyphenation in title (\maketitle)?
I want to have a \maketitle title page where every word in the title is not hyphenated. Elsewhere I wouldn't mind hyphenation of the title (e.g., in the Reference List), but on the title page it looks ...
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Error when using colour in \author
I am getting an error when I try to use \color{} in the the author field with beamer, even though the file compiles and I get the the words I want coloured in the author field.
This is the error ...
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creating a titlepage
I just want to create a titlepage like here.
But I don't know how to put a line under the logo and get the text and all the stuff in the right position.
I've tried some things with
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How to choose singular or plural form from presence of \and in argument
I need a new command \director (similar to author) to write project's director names.
But I would like to write the word Director or Directors (if more than one) in front of the names. The easiest way ...
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How to include abstract into titlepage?
I don't want to have the abstract on a separate page but rather under the title. Also I then want to end the page and don't begin with the actual document.
This is my minimal example:
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Remove “Abstract” title from Abstract
I am using the abstract package, but want to remove the title and associated horizontal spacing. Is there an easy way to do this?
(Be aware: this may be a complete newby question, as I have only ...
