On 16.11.2010 20:36, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 11/16/2010 02:05 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>> On 11/15/2010 08:46 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>>> I want to make myself an article template that's otherwise normal,
>>> but with a custom title page. Basically, I want something that goes
>>>
>>> (Nifty graphics with my company logo)
>>>
>>> title
>>> author
>>> abstract
>>>
>>> (More nifty graphics)
>>>
>>> This is for when I need to make a white paper for a customer, or to
>>> post on the web, etc.
>>>
>>> I tried to do this as a one-off within LyX, and couldn't even get as
>>> far as inserting nifty graphics ahead of the title. So it appears I
>>> don't even know where to start.
>>>
>>> Where do I start? Is this something that can be done fairly easily?
>>> Do I need a template in LaTeX? If so, how do I
>>> bind/import/convert/whatever it to work with LyX?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>> I forgot to reply to the list. You both have my private thanks --
>> here they are publicly.
>>
>> Liviu's direction got me going with a custom "finger-painted" title
>> page; once I have that working well and I get the time to wrap my head
>> around LaTeX programming I'll take a stab at making my own article class.
>>
> If you can fingerpaint it, then it is easy to transform it into
> something concrete for a documentclass. Printing the titlepage is
> usually the job of the \maketitle macro, which you just need to
> redefine. Here it is from article.cls, with some comments interspersed:
>
> \...@titlepage
>
> So we are going to do what follows if we are supposed to make a separate
> title page. The alternative will follow.
>
> \newcommand\maketitle{%
>
> As said, it is the \maketitle macro that actually prints the title page.
> LyX issues this for you.
>
> \begin{titlepage}%
>
> See below for the definition of this environment. It doesn't do that much.
>
> \let\footnotesize\small
> \let\footnoterule\relax
> \let \footnote \thanks
>
> Those commands redefine some footnote related stuff just for the titlepage.
>
> \null\vfil
>
> This \vfil together with the one below centers the rest vertically on
> the page.
>
> \vskip 60\p@
>
> Skip us down the page a bit.
>
> What follows is what really sets up the title page.
>
> \begin{center}%
>
> Centered....
>
> {\LARGE \...@title \par}%
>
> ...print title LARGE...
>
> \vskip 3em%
>
> ...skip more space...
>
> {\large
> \lineskip .75em%
> \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
> \...@author
> \end{tabular}\par}%
>
> and that mess is for printing multiple authors.
>
> \vskip 1.5em%
> {\large \...@date \par}% % Set date in \large size.
> \end{center}\par
>
> Skipped more space, printed date.
>
> \...@thanks
> \vfil\null
> \end{titlepage}%
>
> Now we restore everything and undefine many of the commands we used, so
> they can't be used again. (No double \maketitle.)
>
> \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
> \global\let\thanks\relax
> \global\let\maketitle\relax
> \global\l...@thanks\@empty
> \global\l...@author\@empty
> \global\l...@date\@empty
> \global\l...@title\@empty
> \global\let\title\relax
> \global\let\author\relax
> \global\let\date\relax
> \global\let\and\relax
> }
>
> What follows is the version you get without a separate titlepage.
>
> \else
> \newcommand\maketitle{\par
> \begingroup
>
> More footnote redefining, so you get "*", e.g., for the "thanks" footnote.
>
> \renewcommand\thefootnot...@fnsymbol\c@footnote}%
> \d...@makefnmark{\rlap{\@textsuperscript{\normalfo...@thefnmark}}}%
> \long\d...@makefntext##1{\parindent 1em\noindent
> \...@xt@1.8em{%
> \h...@textsuperscript{\normalfont\@thefnmark}}##1}%
>
> What follows is designed to get the title into the right column, I
> think. You can probably just copy it over to a custom class.
>
> \...@twocolumn
> \ifnum \...@number=\@ne
> \...@maketitle
> \else
> \twocolum...@maketitle]%
> \fi
>
> What follows is what you get if (a) no separate titlepage and (b) single
> column.
>
> \else
> \newpage
> \glob...@topnum\z@ % Prevents figures from going at top of page.
> \...@maketitle
>
> So what you get in that case is just \...@maketitle. Indeed, you can see
> that the real action is just in \...@maketitle for this case.
>
> \fi
> \thispagestyle{plai...@thanks
> \endgroup
> \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
> \global\let\thanks\relax
> \global\let\maketitle\relax
> \global\l...@maketitle\relax
> \global\l...@thanks\@empty
> \global\l...@author\@empty
> \global\l...@date\@empty
> \global\l...@title\@empty
> \global\let\title\relax
> \global\let\author\relax
> \global\let\date\relax
> \global\let\and\relax
> }
>
> All the same resetting there.
>
> The real action:
>
> \d...@maketitle{%
> \newpage
> \null
> \vskip 2em%
>
> Make sure we start on a new page, and skip down a bit.
>
> \begin{center}%
> \let \footnote \thanks
> {\LARGE \...@title \par}%
> \vskip 1.5em%
> {\large
> \lineskip .5em%
> \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
> \...@author
> \end{tabular}\par}%
> \vskip 1em%
> {\large \...@date}%
> \end{center}%
> \par
> \vskip 1.5em}
> \fi
>
> You can see that that is pretty much the same layout as before.
>
> Here's the titlepage environment.
>
> \newenvironment{titlepage}
> {%
> \...@twocolumn
> \...@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
> \else
> \...@restonecolfalse\newpage
> \fi
> \thispagestyle{empty}%
> \setcounter{pag...@ne
> }%
> {...@restonecol\twocolumn \else \newpage \fi
> \...@twoside\else
> \setcounter{pag...@ne
> \fi
> }
>
> As you can see, what it mostly does is just turn off two column, if we
> have it, and set a variable so we remember to restore it at the end.
>
> Richard
>
Hi Richard,
thanks to make this explanation public ;-)
It is very halpful wrt my basic latex knowledge, so I can polih a bit
the things I have done so far.
Cheers
Hellmut
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