Custom article header creates undesired page skip and paragraph horizontal skip

Question

I'm creating a simple template to be used by my students in their assignments. It consists of "article" document class but with an aditional content on top of first page. The content is declared in the \newcommand below:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}

\newcommand\makeheader{
\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{4\baselineskip}
\includegraphics[height=4\baselineskip]{figures/logo.jpg}
\end{wrapfigure}
University name \\
Institute name \\
Graduation course \\
Course name}

\title{My assignment}
\author{An student }
\date{April 2020}

\begin{document}

\makeheader

\maketitle

Here goes my doc...


\end{document}

Three undesired things happens:

1. The custom \makeheader forces \maketitle move to a second page, that is undesired.

2. The first sentence (University name) in my custom "header" wrongly skips horizontaly to right. That is also undesired.

3. The title in \maketitle also skips horizontaly to right. Very undesired.

How can I fix these 3 undesired behaviors?

Best regards.

Answer 1

One approach could be use a fancy header:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\fancypagestyle{Univlogo}{%
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% no header line
\fancyhead[L]{\hspace{-1cm}\includegraphics[height=4\baselineskip]{example-image}
\quad\begin{minipage}[b][4\baselineskip][c]{.5\textwidth}\sffamily
University name \\
Institute name \\
Graduation course \\
Course name
\end{minipage}}}

\newgeometry{margin=1in}

\title{My assignment}
\author{An student }
\date{April 2020}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{Univlogo}


Here goes my doc... \lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Another could be the texpos package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\def\UniLogo{\begin{textblock}{9}(.5,.5)
\includegraphics[height=4\baselineskip]{example-image}
\quad\begin{minipage}[b][4\baselineskip][c]{.5\textwidth}\sffamily
University name \\
Institute name \\
Graduation course \\
Course name
\end{minipage}
\end{textblock}}


\title{My assignment}
\author{An student }
\date{April 2020}

\begin{document}

\maketitle\UniLogo

Here goes my doc... \lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Answer 2

Here is a solution using a tikzpicture and its very convenient current page node. You need the remember picture option to access this node and the overlay option so that the TeX box produced by the tikzpicture at the place in the document where \makeheader appears takes no space. Put this command in a paragraph that occurs early enough to be on the first page (see the example below); this way, you don't disturb placement of the title. You need to compile twice because of the remember picture mechanism.

Note: if you use shift={(0cm,0m)} instead of shift={(1.2cm,-1.2cm)}, the top left corner of the image will be placed exactly at the top left corner of the page (also known as “north west”).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}        % only for the dummy text used here

\newcommand*{\makeheader}{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
    \node[inner sep=0, below right, shift={(1.2cm,-1.2cm)}] (logo)
      at (current page.north west)
      {\includegraphics[height=4\baselineskip]{example-image}};
    \node[right=2em of logo, align=left]
      {%
        University name   \\
        Institute name    \\
        Graduation course \\
        Course name
      };
  \end{tikzpicture}%
}

\title{My assignment}
\author{A student}
\date{April 2020}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\makeheader
Here goes my doc. \lipsum[1]

\end{document}