On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >>> In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never > >>> apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through > >>> styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, > >>> subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel > >>> free to apply appearances directly, and DO NOT use the document class's > >>> facilities for title, author, etc, and just write them with proper > >>> appearances and spacing. > >> > >> Am I correct in understand you that I can just skip using the title and > >> author environments and write and format the as if body text? Recently I > >> tried formatting a title using the section environment and it would not > >> compile to pdf without the title and author data. > > > > You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later. One > > easy way to do it is just to copy the code that sets the title from the > > document class, in this case scrartcl.cls, and modify it as you see fit. > > Depending upon whether you have a title page or not, this is either the > > \maketitle command or else the \@maketitle command. > > I don't understand, Richard. This sounds like the normal procedure and what > I've been doing and not liking the result. I took Steve to be suggesting > going around that. Would not be surprised if I didn't understand. > > Eric > ------ > > For title page I decided to do them with ERT for spacing and alignment, and > all the material in a separate file which then included. You can also do with > a graphic design application, create a file and then include it.
Thanks, Marcelo. My document is an article, so I don't have a title page. My beef with what koma-script does with the title and author is the size of the font. Way, way too big for my taste. Might also want to have them left-justified instead of centered, but that is less important. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "Hatred destroys. Love heals." - Eknath Easwaran
