\documentclass{report} \title{Inessential \LaTeX{}} \author{The Student Information Processing Board} \date{\today} \begin{document} \maketitleCreating a title page is a two step process in LATEX. First you give it the information you want it to put on the title page and then you tell it to make the title page. The
\title
,
\author
and \date
commands do not generate text--they
merely specify what \maketitle
will place on the title page.
If you use \maketitle
, you must specify a \title
, but
any or all of the others may be omitted. The \maketitle
command generates the title page. You must place it after the
\begin{document}
. In the article
document style, the
title ``page'' is at the top of the first page of the document. To
put the title ``page'' on a page by itself place a \newpage
command after the \maketitle
. In the report
and
book
styles, it is on a separate page at the beginning.
LATEX will automatically number pages, but often you don't want a
page number on the title page. To eliminate the page number on the
first page, put \thispagestyle{empty}
before the
\maketitle
.
It is possible to number pages alphabetically or with roman numerals. It is also possible to change the current page number. See the section of the LATEX manual on page styles.
You can also generate a title page using the titlepage
environment. Anything placed in this environment will be placed on the
title page (which will be a separate page even if you are using the
article
document class). Another good way to create a title page
is to do it yourself, probably using commands like
\begin{center}
, \large{}
, and \newpage
. Using this
method, LATEX won't know the difference between your title page and
any other page, but it may be easier to get what you want.