Change the title page
RoBottin opened this issue · 2 comments
Summary
It would be great to be able to redefine the design of the first page (the title page). Maybe it is easy to do, but I am kinda noob and I cannot do it without destroying the Copyright page and citation.
The easiest way is probably to create your title page in whatever program you like, export it as PDF and add it to the document using some PDF editor. Then delete the default title page as explained here #183.
I agree with @AlexanderZeilmann, that should be the easiest way. Another way could be to use the uni-titlepage package from CTAN. Nevertheless, if you are interested in a slightly more difficult way, I prepared a very minimal title page taking inspiration from the KOMAScript source code. You can use the following block instead of \maketitle, and then customise it as you wish.
\makeatletter
\begin{titlepage}
\noindent\@extratitle
\next@tpage
\noindent\@frontispiece
\next@tpage
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}%
\usekomafont{titlehead}{\@titlehead\par}%
\end{minipage}\par
\null\vfill
\begin{center}
{\usekomafont{subject}{\@subject\par}}%
\vskip 3em
{\usekomafont{title}{\huge \@title\par}}%
\vskip 1em
{\usekomafont{subtitle}{\@subtitle\par}}%
\vskip 2em
{%
\usekomafont{author}{%
\lineskip 0.75em
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
\@author
\end{tabular}\par
}%
}%
\vskip 1.5em
{\usekomafont{date}{\@date \par}}%
\vskip \z@ \@plus3fill
{\usekomafont{publishers}{\@publishers \par}}%
\vskip 3em
\end{center}\par
\vfill\null
\next@tpage
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}
\@uppertitleback
\end{minipage}\par
\vfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{\textwidth}
\@lowertitleback
\end{minipage}\par
\next@tdpage\null\vfill
{\centering\usekomafont{dedication}{\@dedication \par}}%
\vskip \z@ \@plus3fill
\cleardoubleemptypage
\end{titlepage}
\makeatother
In the above snippet, I stripped away a lot of code devoted to 'sanity check'. For example, the original code makes sure that you don't print \@publishers if you didn't define it. (Hint: in your document, when you write \title{My title} or \publishesr{My publisher}, you are defining commands like \@title and \@publishers with values My title and My publisher, respectively; if you don't have a \publishers command in your document, then \@publishers is undefined.) The point is, if you want to use the above snippet, you should remove the parts that you don't need, in order to avoid errors. Alternatively, you can use the full version:
\begin{titlepage}
\setcounter{page}{%
#1%
}%
\if@titlepageiscoverpage
\edef\titlepage@restore{%
\noexpand\endgroup
\noexpand\global\noexpand\@colht\the\@colht
\noexpand\global\noexpand\@colroom\the\@colroom
\noexpand\global\vsize\the\vsize
\noexpand\global\noexpand\@titlepageiscoverpagefalse
\noexpand\let\noexpand\titlepage@restore\noexpand\relax
}%
\begingroup
\topmargin=\dimexpr \coverpagetopmargin-1in\relax
\oddsidemargin=\dimexpr \coverpageleftmargin-1in\relax
\evensidemargin=\dimexpr \coverpageleftmargin-1in\relax
\textwidth=\dimexpr
\paperwidth-\coverpageleftmargin-\coverpagerightmargin\relax
\textheight=\dimexpr
\paperheight-\coverpagetopmargin-\coverpagebottommargin\relax
\headheight=0pt
\headsep=0pt
\footskip=\baselineskip
\@colht=\textheight
\@colroom=\textheight
\vsize=\textheight
\columnwidth=\textwidth
\hsize=\columnwidth
\linewidth=\hsize
\else
\let\titlepage@restore\relax
\fi
\let\footnotesize\small
\let\footnoterule\relax
\let\footnote\thanks
\renewcommand*\thefootnote{\@fnsymbol\c@footnote}%
\let\@oldmakefnmark\@makefnmark
\renewcommand*{\@makefnmark}{\rlap\@oldmakefnmark}%
\ifx\@extratitle\@empty
\ifx\@frontispiece\@empty
\else
\if@twoside\mbox{}\next@tpage\fi
\noindent\@frontispiece\next@tdpage
\fi
\else
\noindent\@extratitle
\ifx\@frontispiece\@empty
\else
\next@tpage
\noindent\@frontispiece
\fi
\next@tdpage
\fi
\setparsizes{\z@}{\z@}{\z@\@plus 1fil}\par@updaterelative
\ifx\@titlehead\@empty \else
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}%
\usekomafont{titlehead}{\@titlehead\par}%
\end{minipage}\par
\fi
\null\vfill
\begin{center}
\ifx\@subject\@empty \else
{\usekomafont{subject}{\@subject\par}}%
\vskip 3em
\fi
{\usekomafont{title}{\huge \@title\par}}%
\vskip 1em
{\ifx\@subtitle\@empty\else\usekomafont{subtitle}{\@subtitle\par}\fi}%
\vskip 2em
{%
\usekomafont{author}{%
\lineskip 0.75em
\begin{tabular}[t]{c}
\@author
\end{tabular}\par
}%
}%
\vskip 1.5em
{\usekomafont{date}{\@date \par}}%
\vskip \z@ \@plus3fill
{\usekomafont{publishers}{\@publishers \par}}%
\vskip 3em
\end{center}\par
\@thanks\global\let\@thanks\@empty
\vfill\null
\if@twoside
\@tempswatrue
\expandafter\ifnum \@nameuse{scr@v@3.12}>\scr@compatibility\relax
\else
\ifx\@uppertitleback\@empty\ifx\@lowertitleback\@empty
\@tempswafalse
\fi\fi
\fi
\if@tempswa
\next@tpage
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}
\@uppertitleback
\end{minipage}\par
\vfill
\begin{minipage}[b]{\textwidth}
\@lowertitleback
\end{minipage}\par
\@thanks\global\let\@thanks\@empty
\fi
\else
\ifx\@uppertitleback\@empty\else
\ClassWarning{\KOMAClassName}{%
non empty \string\uppertitleback\space ignored
by \string\maketitle\MessageBreak
in `twoside=false' mode%
}%
\fi
\ifx\@lowertitleback\@empty\else
\ClassWarning{\KOMAClassName}{%
non empty \string\lowertitleback\space ignored
by \string\maketitle\MessageBreak
in `twoside=false' mode%
}%
\fi
\fi
\ifx\@dedication\@empty
\else
\next@tdpage\null\vfill
{\centering\usekomafont{dedication}{\@dedication \par}}%
\vskip \z@ \@plus3fill
\@thanks\global\let\@thanks\@empty
\cleardoubleemptypage
\fi
\ifx\titlepage@restore\relax\else\clearpage\titlepage@restore\fi
\end{titlepage}
Have fun :)