Talk:LaTeX/Title Creation

Comparison to HTML
> "The process is similar to working with raw HTML with the added step that each time you want to see how your changes look, you have to re-compile the source. While this may seem like a major inconvenience, the benefit is that once the customized title format has been written, it serves as a template for all other documents that would use the title format you have just made. In other words, once you have a layout you like, you can use it for any other documents where you would like the same layout without any additional fiddling with layout."

Well, this looks like some comparison to raw HTML. You lose the convenience of not needing to compile, but you get the convenience to reuse your template.

Sadly there is something called CSS, which we all know. We gain nothing here. Just admit it. The problem, I guess, is we shouldn't compare LaTeX to HTML at all, since they are completely different things. --166.111.68.163 (discuss) 16:00, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Errors in the code of "A practical example"
--Escalator (discuss • contribs) 15:57, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * should be  in small letters
 * but  still produces   (see e. g. http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noline for explanation), better replace by
 * I fixed it. Explanation in code. --Ambrevar (discuss • contribs) 13:11, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

English needs improvement
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)

I agree with both points - I will try to re-write parts of the page in more normalized English in the next days. Overall, excellent job, very helpful. --Spirosdenaxas (talk) 09:31, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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:

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kittybriton (talk • contribs) 02:04, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 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)

This seems rather useless.
Perhaps you could make this document more useful by following the standard LaTeX way of doing this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.97.193.91 (talk • contribs) 16:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * 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)

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 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marozols (talk • contribs) 00:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

\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. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 78.59.243.34 (talk • contribs) 14:44, 17 January 2009.


 * 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)

Order of chapters
This chapter comes way before the chapter of including firures. Yet there is mentionned that "the figure environment isn't used ..." so to make it understandeble, someone should at least mention that the importing of figures is explained later on.--Sanderd17 (talk) 21:34, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

broken example
please fix this. it doesnt work =[

I am getting this error: ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\pdftex-def\pdftex.def"))) No file title.aux. ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\context\base\supp-pdf.mkii" [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).] ) <./logo.png, id=1, 214.8828pt x 26.499pt>  ! Misplaced \noalign. \hline ->\noalign {\ifnum 0=`}\fi \hrule \@height \arrayrulewidth \futurelet... l.21 \hline [0.4cm] ?


 * Strange error log, anyway I fixed it. Explanation in code. --Ambrevar (discuss • contribs) 13:11, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Inserting vertical space
Some title page layouts will want to insert vertical space so things end up in particular places on the page. How can this be done? w:user:plugwash 14:08, 27 August 2011 (UTC)


 * You can use or the simple  command. See Lengths for more details. --Ambrevar (discuss • contribs) 13:11, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

rework and updates needed
Guys, i came to the decision, that complaining about the quality isn't the right thing to do and dedicating the time saved not complaining to working on the wikibook and improving the quality. This will be an investment in the long run, since support questions in forums will decrease (at least i hope so), which means less work for me on this front.

I hope we can work together on this one and improve the overall quality and methods to the current state of the art.

Johannes Bo (discuss • contribs) 19:20, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

cleaning the discussion page
If nobody objects till 2016-09-23, i will clean this discussion page from irrelevant content, or by now fixed points. The rest will stay untouched.--Johannes Bo (discuss • contribs) 06:13, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Old discussions should be archived. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:40, 23 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Nice to know that somebody still reads here, thanks. What about ProTeXt Texnic center on this page? It is completely off-topic, since it has nothing to do with title creation (and is a request for personal support). Shall this be archived as well? And if so, how? Can you share a link? Personally, i don't think it belongs in here.--Johannes Bo (discuss • contribs) 18:04, 23 August 2016 (UTC)