How to include information about title, author, publisher on a title page?

Question

EDIT: Border is not part of the final result - it's just a screenshot.

I want my title page (first page after cover) to look like this (taken from word document):

What is the proper way of laying out a title page? Should I use the title, author commands, or just layout text with vspace and such? However, I don't know if LaTeX has fields for specifying publisher and publisher place.

Any tips or examples on how to do this would be great.

Answer 1

If you type texdoc titlepages in a command line, you should find Peter Wilson's wonderful set of title page examples. Here's the link on CTAN: TitlePages.

Answer 2

I am not sure whether the border is there in your title. Have a look at this. Hope it is useful.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage[a4paper,bindingoffset=0.2in,left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
%-----------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{titlepage}
%=========================
\begin{center}
\hspace{0pt}\\
\vspace{4cm}
{\Large\bfseries ANDRIY DROZDYUK}\\[5pt]
{\Large\bfseries DENYS DROZDYUK}\\
\vspace{3cm}
 {\scalebox{2}{\Huge\bfseries FIBONACCI,}}\\
\vspace{0.8cm}
 {\LARGE\bfseries HIS NUMBERS AND HIS}\\[10pt]
 {\LARGE\bfseries RABBITS}\\
 % ----------------------------------------------------------------
 \vfill
 Choven Publishing Company\\
 TORONTO--2010
 % ----------------------------------------------------------------
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------
\end{document}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 3

In addition to the great reference Alan's referring to, I recommend just hard-coding your title page as you like. You can use the titlepage environment, but I don't find it to be particularly useful (see What does the titlepage environment do and what are its benefits?). You can access the information stored in \title and \author like this:

\documentclass{article}

\author{Frank Foo}
\title{Bar Baz}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
\@author: \@title
\makeatother

\end{document}

Or you can use the titling package, which stores this information in macros:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{titling}

\author{Frank Foo}
\title{Bar Baz}

\begin{document}

\theauthor: \thetitle

\end{document}

For vertical alignment, I recommend using \vspace*{\fill}, which puts elements maximally far apart, e.g. if you want to put Choven Publishing Corp. etc. at the very bottom of your page.

If you want to vertically space out elements, but leave different amounts of space, you can use \vspace*{\stretch{n}}, e.g.

Foo

\vspace*{\stretch{1}}

Bar

\vspace*{\stretch{2}}

Baz

This gives you double the amount of space between Bar and Baz that you have between Foo and Bar. You can use any numbers you like, of course.

If you want to put elemtents next to each other (e.g. some text and a logo), minipages will be your friend. There's a question about that somewhere here, which I couldn't find right now, but I'll insert the link if I come across it again.

Finally, as you implied in your question, it's good to use \vspace or \vspace* to add vertical space; don't use several instances of \\.