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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 produce the current date. How do I achieve that no date is displayed at all?
\documentclass{article}
\author{Author, A.}
\title{Alpha}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Some text.
\end{document}
If you want a blank date, just use \date{}.
If you want to remove the spacing altogether where the date usually goes, look into using the titling package, or else the mechanisms provided by your document class, depending on what it is.
\date{} with the article class (instead of simply omitting the date), the vertical alignment of any following text will change as if the spacing was removed.
\date{} it works fine.
Dec 8, 2012 at 23:56
titling package to remove space, you can do \predate{} and \postdate{} and then \date{} (as above). The same can be done for author (\preauthor{}, \postauthor{}, and \author{}) and title. To remove the space after the title line itself, do \posttitle{\par\end{center}}, which is the same as the default posttitle except with the \vskip 0.5em omitted (see texdoc titling, page 2).
scrartcl class.
Jul 28, 2019 at 11:33
For a cheap and easy solution to removing the spacing without delving into the titling package that frabjous mentions, try:
\documentclass{article}
\author{Me}
\title{Foo}
\date{\vspace{-5ex}}
%\date{} % Toggle commenting to test
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Bar
\end{document}
@Reid’s titling solution (mentioned above in a comment, and alluded to in @frabjous’s answer) deserves a full answer, since it does a nice job of removing the space associated with the date:
\documentclass{article}
% remove spacing around date:
\usepackage{titling}
\predate{}
\postdate{}
\author{Author, A.}
\title{Alpha}
\date{} % clear date
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Some text.
\end{document}
\predate{} and \postdate{} do?
Nov 7, 2020 at 19:41
titling package) to empty.
Important: ordering matters when using \date{}
In Overleaf, date omission only works if \date{} comes before \maketitle. Minimal Working Example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{Some title}
\date{}
\maketitle
%% \date{} % omission fails if placed after maketitle instead
\end{document}
\date will always only then have an effect on \maketitle if it comes before \maketitle. And this is not only the case in Overleaf (which just uses a normal TeX distribution anyways).
Apr 9, 2021 at 10:37