{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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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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\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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poor leading in titles
Here's an example of terrible (and non-constant) leading in titles that is causing me trouble:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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Why are \@title, \@author, and \@date cleared during \maketitle?
(This is not a duplicate of How can I use @author, @date, and @title after maketitle?)
I understand that \maketitle resets a bunch of macros, including \@title, \@author, \@date, and \maketitle ...
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Filling white space in title page with random numbers or a text
Is it possible to fill all white space in this template with numbers or a text?
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% PACKAGES AND OTHER ...
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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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How to add several authors with different affiliations in beamer?
Is it possible to do this in beamer? Or do I have to use other packages?
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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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Suppress page numbers in article documentclass
I want to suppress page numbers. I am also using \maketitle command which seems to trigger the problem. MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,english]{article}
\title{My title}
\begin{document}
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2answers
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Extra space behind month for \today with \usepackage[norsk]{babel} in December
When using \today and \usepackage[norsk]{babel} (babel <v3.8l>) in December there is an extra space behind the month name. How do I get around this?
\documentclass{article}
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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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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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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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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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\everymath and author color
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[11pt]{paper}
\usepackage[usenames]{color}
\definecolor{foo}{rgb}{0.75,0.0,0.0}
\everymath{\color{foo}}
\title{something}
\author{someone}
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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 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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\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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3answers
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Book cover, integration multilayered equations. (Suggestions?)
I am sort of writing a compendium about integration, everyhting from basic substitutions, to contour integrals, Gamma, beta integrals and so forth.
I feel that no standard frontcase suffices and I ...
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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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Subtitle with the \maketitle page?
Does there exist some command for subtitles in the \maketitle thing?
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How to painlessly create a custom layout for the title page for pdflatex?
For my thesis my university has only a Word template with font sizes and "window" specifications to position title, name, date, etc.
What is the easiest way to layout such thing, if I'm not an expert ...
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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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votes
2answers
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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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Adding the author photo along with the name in the title page
Friends, I'm trying to add a photo along with each author name in a beamer title page. Please consider the following code:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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Adding information to a Beamer title page
I'm working on putting together a Beamer presentation and had a question.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\title{Screen Scraping with R}
\subtitle{}
\author{name}
\date{June 20, 2011}
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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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Where can I translate the Bergen beamer style?
I would like to use the Bergen theme with orchid color scheme. It works well, but I have "Who?" and "Where?" on my title page - I would like to translate them to my language. How could I do this the ...
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ToC on the title page in a report
I am writing a thesis, and as long as it's a draft, I would like to keep the amount of non-content to a minimum. That said, I would like my title page to be just a heading with the name of the thesis, ...
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Non-special first page in \documenclass{article}
I'm new to TeX and LaTeX, so I might not explain it all that well.
I'm trying to put pagenumbers on each footer in the form "Page X of XX" using fancyhdr. So far I have this:
\cfoot{Page \thepage\ ...
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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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votes
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Putting my name ahead of my co-authors on a latex title page
Grad student here, getting ready to submit a paper. I've done 92% of the work on a paper I'm submitting, but I've got three (senior) co-authors. I want to put my name up top, and put their names in ...
10
votes
1answer
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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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How to add running title and author
My question is this: how can I add the co-called "running" title and author name on the top of each page? This feature is often used in journals so that the short running title is shown on the top of ...
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Full page image as title page
Background
Wrote a technical manual in LyX. The technical manual currently has two parts:
Cover image (PDF)
Manual text (PDF)
Problem
When merging the two PDF files (with GhostScript or other ...
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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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Create a book cover with spine, rear page and flaps
I have just finished my thesis, and I want to ask if there is a way to create a front-title page with spine (I don't know if this is the right term for the area between front page and rear page)? I ...
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Revtex 4.1 multiple affiliations
EDITED:11-23-2010
In case anyone stumbles upon this question and has a similar problem. The Ubuntu/Debian repositories have an old version of revtex that exhibit this bug. Until the repos are updated, ...
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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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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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