The first few pages in a thesis or report seem to be not so easy for a Latex beginner. I read the post, however, it didn't show how to do the next few pages often appeared in a thesis and the text in the title page seem not centered. Recently, I am trying to customize my titlepage and find a good title page, named as title-creation. But there is no the .tex for it for modification... How would I render this title page in Latex and combine it with my code?
My code for the thesis is as follows. The title page should be compatible with \documentclass{report}
. In addition, I want to arrange the first few pages in the following sequence: title page, dedication page, Acknowledgments, Abstract,
blank page, page for celebrated dictum, table of contents. Thank you!
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{geometry}\geometry{top=3cm,bottom=3cm,left=3.7cm,right=2.5cm}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix}
\usepackage{upgreek}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{\normalfont\Huge\bfseries}{\chaptertitlename \ \thechapter}{15pt}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-3\baselineskip}{20pt}[3.7cm]
\hyphenpenalty=10000
\tolerance=2500
\raggedbottom
\usepackage{nomentbl}
\usepackage{enumitem,calc}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{setspace}\linespread{1.6}
\setlength\parskip{3pt plus 1.5pt minus 1.5pt}%paragraph
\title{Title of the Thesis}
\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{Roman}
%------------------------------------------------------
\chapter*{Acknowledgments}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
I thank many people here.
\chapter*{Abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
Here is a short abstract.
\clearpage
\tableofcontents
\clearpage
, which does give a new page but numbering it with 2. I don't what it to be numbered. Thanks for your help.\pagestyle{empty}
? Ich really don't know where the problem is. Are you a beginner? If so, please read some introductory material.