Thank you for this!! I do want a subtitle on the cover page of a PDF doc.
What file to I update with the content you've given? (conf.py?)
On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 17:33:08 UTC-7, Peter Burdine wrote:
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by "subtitle"?
>
> The reST you posted (assuming it is all in one file) says make a Heading 1
> ('Title'), followed by a Heading 2 ('subtitle') followed by a Heading 1
> ('subsubtitle'). This is because you used the same character ('*') for
> heading 1, then used it again for, for what looks like it should be, a
> heading 3. In reST, any 4 consecutive characters that begin a line can be
> used as a heading indicator. Overlines are optional, underlines are
> manditory and need to be at least as long as the text they are trying to
> over/underline. If you use overlines, then they need to be the same length
> as the underline. If you follow the python guidelines, then use # for
> heading 1, * for heading 2, and = for heading 3 (IIRC).
>
> It looks like you are trying to build a PDF from your question. If
> someone asked about a subtitle for PDF output, then I assume that they mean
> some some text that is slightly smaller than the title, on the title page.
> If this is what you want, you will need to modify your preamble to redefine
> \maketitle.
>
> \renewcommand{\maketitle}{%
> \begin{titlepage}%
>
> % Put your content here
>
> \end{titlepage}%
> \cleardoublepage%
> \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
> \let\thanks\relax\let\maketitle\relax
> %\@ifundefined{fancyhf}{}{\pagestyle{normal}}%
> }
>
> You can find the default definition in one of the .sty files that is
> included with Sphinx.
>
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 4:27:53 PM UTC-7, Fiona Hanington wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> (Excuse the newby question -- I am new to rst and sphinx and the person
>> who set things up here has left, so I am trying to work things out.)
>>
>> I need to add a subtitle to an existing doc.
>>
>> Sphinx docs on the internet tell me that to add a title/subtitle, I
>> simply need to add this to my "file":
>>
>> *****
>> Title
>> *****
>>
>> subtitle
>> ########
>>
>> subsubtitle
>> ***********
>> and so on
>>
>>
>>
>> However, I don't know where to add this. If I look at my conf.py file,
>> which currently has a project name that controls the doc title, it looks
>> like this (title is not formatted as suggested above). Title is defined by
>> what is in *project = *:
>>
>> from shared.conf import restrictions
>> from shared.conf import *
>> part = "09-1076A-D"
>>
>> # General information about the project.
>> project = u'Getting Started'
>>
>> # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as
>> replacement for
>> # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout
>> the
>> # built documents.
>> #
>> # The short X.Y version.
>> version = '2.6'
>> # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
>> release = version
>>
>> latex_preamble += r"""
>> \def\part{%s}
>> \newcommand{\argmin}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmin}}
>> \newcommand{\argmax}{\operatornamewithlimits{argmax}}
>> \newcommand{\vc}[1]{{\pmb{#1}}}
>> \newcommand{\ip}[2]{\langle{#1},{#2}\rangle}
>> \newcommand{\sign}{\operatorname{sign}}
>> """ % dwave_part
>>
>> #add restrictions
>> #latex_preamble += restrictions
>>
>> latex_documents = [
>> ('index', '%s_GettingStarted.tex' % (part), project,
>> name, 'manual'),
>> ]
>>
>> pngmath_latex_preamble = latex_preamble
>>
>>
>> Thank you!!
>>
>> Fiona
>>
>>
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