Talk:LaTeX/Title Creation

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The English on this page needs help to become intelligible. Currently it sounds fairly foreign and I suspect the original writer was not a native speaker. The ideas are good, though, and I don't mean to disparage the work done already--I wouldn't want others to see very much of my Spanish!

I may or may not have time to edit this page further, but it needs more clarity. Once the usage is standard, it still may need some work in normalizing terms--I see inconsistencies in my current corrections since sometimes I use 'layout' and sometimes 'format'. This comes partly from my feeble knowledge of typesetting. For now I just want the page to be legible for native speakers of English. --JECompton 15:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ProTeXt TeXnic Center

I am trying to learn TeX having installed ProTeXt (Windows XP distribution), and everything goes fine as long as I don't use the graphicx package. If anyone can help me troubleshoot, I would be most grateful.

The log file after compiling the example file on this page was as follows:

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: C:\Documents and Settings\Myscha\My Documents\LaTeX files\Learning LaTeX\Learning\test_title.aux
 
I found no \citation commands---while reading file C:\Documents and Settings\Myscha\My Documents\LaTeX files\Learning LaTeX\Learning\test_title.aux
 
I found no \bibdata command---while reading file C:\Documents and Settings\Myscha\My Documents\LaTeX files\Learning LaTeX\Learning\test_title.aux
 
I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file C:\Documents and Settings\Myscha\My Documents\LaTeX files\Learning LaTeX\Learning\test_title.aux
 
(There were 3 error messages)

You will have much more success finding your answer on a user's forum, such as comp.text.tex or . You could expect an answer or two in less than 24 hours. Here you will probably not see anything at all (although my suggestion is to "clean" other files that are not .tex or .bib, and try "latex", "bibtex", again). +mt 08:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This seems rather useless.

Perhaps you could make this document more useful by following the standard LaTeX way of doing this?

in my past experiences I found it much simpler and faster to create titles this way instead of using packages and studying hours just to make a minor change to the title. If you know another easy way to create titles, just add it to this section. Each user will have the possibility to use the preferred approach. Alessio Damato (talk) 10:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

I added the standard way, and I'm putting it first just because it is easier and less intimidating. I agree that the current page seems useful unless you want to explicitly control formatting of your title page without any thought to journal submission (and don't mind losing the WYSIWYM aspect of LaTeX in the process). --Sargas (talk) 17:13, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

When I was trying to produce my own custom title page, I got this warning:

"pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored"

This is because the title page has no number on it and the next page has number 1. I wonder if the same problems happens in the example given here. Anyway, there is a simple workaround for this. See here: http://tug.org/mail-archives/texhax/2005-June/004157.html

[edit] \thanks command

It is worth describing \thanks{footnote} command which places a glyph (like a star or a dagger) wherever it is used (say, inside \author) and puts a footnote at the bottom of the page with the text footnote.

Added, if there is more to say, feel free to press the 'edit draft' at the top of the page. --Sargas (talk) 17:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)